Casona De Santa Rosa Quotes & Sayings

Question: What is he? Answer: A sluggard; how very pleasant it would have been to hear that of oneself! It would mean that I was positively defined, it would mean that there was something to say about me. "Sluggard" - why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career. Do not jest, it is so. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths - or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today. — Ian Frazier

If the Baron meets with a parcel of negro ships carrying whites into slavery to work upon their plantations in a cold climate, should we therefore imagine that he intends a reflection on the present traffic in human flesh? And that, if the negroes should do so, it would be simple justice, as retaliation is the law of God! If we were to think this a reflection on any present commercial or political matter, we should be tempted to imagine, perhaps, some political ideas conveyed in every page, in every sentence of the whole. Whether such things are or are not the intentions of the Baron the reader must judge. — Rudolf Erich Raspe

The third direction of prayer is prayer against Satan, devils and demons — Sunday Adelaja

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport. — Michael Wilbon

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it. — Natalie Clifford Barney

Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers. — J. Bartell

Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy. — Criss Jami

I had this dream in which I was having a cocktail party, and it was in a big room. I was standing at the door saying hello to people, and Jeffrey Dahmer walks up and I say, 'Oh Jeffrey, please go on in, it's right in there.' And then I say to myself, I just put Jeffrey Dahmer in a room with all my friends. — Peter Straub

Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul. — Patrick Dixon

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science — George Santayana

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

You don't believe in love?
Connor grimaced as if he'd been poked with a spear. Oh, he believed in love all right. Love was a bitch. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Alexis de Tocqueville toured the United States in the early 1830s and famously proclaimed the emergence of Homo democraticus, a cheeky creature whose passion for equality and self-interest was tempered only by his ability to join fellow citizens in all manner of mutual associations for pragmatic benefit. — Anonymous

This long ride is the blood my heart bleeds... — Jess "Chief" Brynjulson