Capitolio Estados Quotes & Sayings

[Ava] had always thought the main relationship in the family was the one between Nancy and her daughters. To have a family, you needed a father, of course, and Jimmy had played that role perfectly well, if you were okay with an old-fashioned interpretation of the job. But the Nickerson family was all about the women and their noisy, bickering, gossiping, interfering relationships with one another.
And now it seemed that maybe she ahd been looking at it all wrong. Maybe she and Lauren were just the icing, and the basic, underlying cake of the family was the couple in front of her who had a shared history she knew very little about. — Claire LaZebnik

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up. — Nathaniel Rateliff

Decide not rashly. The decision made
Can never be recalled. The gods implore not,
Plead not, solicit not; they only offer
Choice and occasion, which once being passed
Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. — Hermann Hesse

I hate it when people are wrongly convicted. — Lyudmila Alexeyeva

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? — John Tillotson

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world ... And something sooner or later has to give. — Ken Wilber

All the lies, all the ways we have of trying to make life simple for ourselves by putting people into boxes marked black, white, good, bad, when all of us are victims of our own prejudices. — Julia Gregson

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid. — Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them. — Billy Graham