Balcarce 54 Quotes & Sayings

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea. — Tony Benn

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep. — Michael Moore

Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. — Beverley Nichols

We are not afraid of death," the suicide bombers say to show their superiority to ordinary people. But they are afraid of life, constantly trampling on it, slandering it, destroying it, and training children still in their cradles for martyrdom. Observers have noted that the photos of terrorists taken a few hours before they made their attacks show people who are serene and at peace. They have eliminated doubt: they know. It is the paradox of open societies that they seem to be disordered, unjust, threatened by crime, loneliness, and drugs because they display their indignity before the whole world, never ceasing to admit their defects, whereas other, more oppressive societies seem harmonious because the press and the opposition are muzzled.
"Where there are no visible conflicts, there is no freedom," Montesquieu said. — Pascal Bruckner

Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Being proud of your nationality is like congratulating yourself for inheriting money. — Dov Davidoff

The screaming four-month-old child is trying to find out whether the world is a reasonably safe place or not. She is in a state of deep terror and isolation. She hasn't learned to feel comfort when no one is around. To put her on the parents' schedule instead of her own for holding and feeding is to "condemn the innocent," as Jesus said (Matt. 12:7). — Henry Cloud

In the genre of "making you feel like you're not having an awesome American high school experience," the worst offender is actually a song: John Cougar Mellencamp's "Jack & Diane." It's one of those songs - like Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" - that everyone knows all the words to without ever having chosen to learn them. — Mindy Kaling

I throw my arms around her without even thinking first, the way I used to with Daddy when he came home from a trip. "Thank you," I say into her waist. Her clothes smell so good. I feel her hand resting on my head, and for that second I feel like nothing could ever go wrong. Not when there's Miss Mary to hug. — Elizabeth Flock

It's as valid to repeat to ourselves what we need to believe, as it is to believe in the things others repeatedly told us but affect us negatively. It sounds crazy, but not as crazy as believing in the things that others said and damage us. — Robin Sacredfire

Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return. — William Shakespeare

The happiest people are those who have invested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy. — John C. Maxwell

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead. — Jim Holt