Capitan Alatriste Quotes & Sayings

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. — Claude Chabrol

There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it
flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service
of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our-
selves and nature. You are not separate from the flowing reality;
you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any-
thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see. — Vernon Howard

I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self. — Reid Scott

It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer) — Alex Scarrow

Be modest in speech, but excel in action. — Horace

She was like a dream I'd given up long ago. A different life, a better me. A chance to wash the filth away. — Chanel Cleeton

I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie. — Emma Forrest

Sometimes the advantage of being young and bright is not knowing what's impossible. — Cherie Priest

Everyone just abandoned us there the whole time and walked on by. It was absolutely terrible. As — Haruki Murakami

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody. — Margaret Deland

The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that's all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely. — Junot Diaz

For Love, to which we may now return, has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them. In this case, Orlando's love began her flight towards him with her white face turned, and her smooth and lovely body outwards. Nearer and nearer she came wafting before her airs of pure delight. All of a sudden (at the sight of the Archduchess presumably) she wheeled about, turned the other way round; showed herself black, hairy, brutish; and it was Lust the vulture, not Love, the Bird of Paradise that flopped, foully and disgustingly, upon his shoulders. Hence he ran; hence he fetched the footman. — Virginia Woolf

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that. — Blaise Pascal

Every life - regardless of background or gender - has equal value. — Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber