Bwenawa Quotes & Sayings

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite. — Frank Capra

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it. — James Agate

gazing upon him with eyes that were too old for her face. — John Connolly

What is crucial in the true state is not the fact that every citizen has the chance to devote himself to the universal interest in the shape of a particular class, but the capacity of the universal class to be really universal, i.e. to be the class of every citizen. — Karl Marx

Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an enveloping blizzard of flies. "You see, " said Bwenawa. "The water dries in the sun, leaving the salt. It's kang-kang [tasty]. We call it salt fish."
"Ah," I said. "In my country we call it rotten fish. — J. Maarten Troost

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — Robert Smith Surtees