Benedito Abbud Quotes & Sayings

If there is a conclusion it is zero. — Nick Land

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation — John Piper

He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter - the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the inevitability if its steady progress through the postal system; the passing from bag to bag and postman to postman until a lone man in a van pulls up to the door and pushes a small pile through the letterbox. It seemed suddenly horrible that one's words could not be taken back, one's thoughts allowed none of the remediation of speaking face to face. — Helen Simonson

Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!' — Joe Nichols

I would give everything, even memory - especially memory - if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I — Simon Van Booy

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts. — Shannon Hale

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us. — Denis Waitley

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear. — Jeff Greenfield

When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character. — J. Michael Straczynski

Don't worry, you are just as sane as I am. — Luna Lovegood

Hardship is only easy to endure when it is someone else's! — Stephen Richards

Work - especially the sort of work that gets your hands dirty and that brands you as a member of the working class - no longer seems germane to our novelists' apprenticeships and, not coincidentally, is no longer easy to find in the fiction they produce. Whether one finds this scarcity something to worry about or simply a fact to be noted probably says a lot about one's class origins and prejudices. — Gerald Howard

I find it magnificent how beau-tiful, loose ends find each other in the world if one only waits with de-cent patience, resilience, and quite blind strength. — J.D. Salinger

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties. — Sheila Heti