Balcarce Locales Quotes & Sayings

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war. — Will Rogers

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination. — John Backus

It is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation. When belief does not control your most important decisions, it is not belief in the underlying reality, it is belief in the usefulness of believing. — Scott Adams

The work is going well, but it looks like it might be the end of the world.) — Elizabeth Kolbert

But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in. — Virginia Woolf

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too. — Arabella Weir

The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, or in the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan. — Fritjof Capra

Don't wear makeup all the time. When you wear makeup all the time it clogs your pores. — Tamera Mowry

He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god. — Henning Mankell

Humnnn," he grunted, then laughed. "A dog bite can't hurt a nigger." "It's swelling and it hurts," I said. "If it bothers you, let me know," he said. "But I never saw a dog yet that could really hurt a nigger." He turned and walked away and the black boys gathered to watch his tall form disappear down the aisles of wet bricks. "Sonofabitch!" "He'll get his someday!" "Boy, their hearts are hard!" "Lawd, a white man'll do anything! — Richard Wright

My music has always been important regardless of other projects. — Mya

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. — Julian Bond

Suffering together builds togetherness, and if togetherness is more important for us and for our joy than freedom from suffering is, then God is good to allow this suffering. — Peter Kreeft

[ ... ] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it. — Helen DeWitt