Brillando Para Quotes & Sayings

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw. — Tony Romo

... a cynic is only a term used by an idealist to describe a realist. — Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

[Act 5, Scene 4, ROSALIND] If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell. — William Shakespeare

There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

"Lily and Lo f**k a lot," Ryke says, each f-bomb bleeped accordingly ... "If we had to rank who's getting the most, it'd be my brother, his girlfriend, then maybe Connor Cobalt and his hand."
Beside me, Connor grins and sips his wine, finding Ryke's comment more amusing than I would. — Krista Ritchie

Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no! — Waka Flocka Flame

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own. — Jimmy Buffett

I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote. — Jill Lepore

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out. -Elizabeth — Jane Austen

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. — Orson Scott Card

crop. Gains from trade likewise accrue to those with the power to exclude. Conflict over those powers also takes legal form. When the legal entitlements people assert are confirmed in practice, the powers and vulnerabilities of people in struggle are defined. As conflict continues, law consolidates gains and losses, solidifying relations between winners and losers. Over time, patterns emerge and inequalities can be reproduced or deepened. I illuminate that process borrowing Gunnar Myrdal's analytic framework for understanding dualist dynamics between centers and peripheries. — David Kennedy Kennedy