Casos Insolitos Quotes & Sayings

Nothingness haunts Being. — Jean-Paul Sartre

There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done — Martti Ahtisaari

For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection, should neither wholly leave out, nor yet too pointedly express what is defective, because this would deform it, and that spoil the resemblance; so since it is hard, or indeed perhaps impossible, to show the life of a man wholly free from blemish, in all that is excellent we must follow truth exactly, and give it fully; any lapses or faults that occur, through human passions or political necessities, we may regard rather as the shortcomings of some particular virtue, than as the natural effects of vice; and may be content without introducing them, curiously and officiously, into our narrative, if it be but out of tenderness to the weakness of nature, which has never succeeded in producing any human character so perfect in virtue as to be pure from all admixture and open to no criticism. — Plutarch

I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round. — Oscar De La Renta

What if you're wrong? What if Norta is the beginning? The change the others need? You don't know where freedom leads. — Victoria Aveyard

Technology and violence are interdependent. — Don DeLillo

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you. — Alexandra Adornetto

When I was an atheist it was because I rejected authority, and why not reject the supreme authority of God, particularly that boring fucker on Songs of Praise. I could reject him with the unsentimental dispatch of a clipped toenail. When I got clean from drugs and alcohol, I saw that the way I'd always seen the world was limited. It will always be limited. By yielding authority to a benign power, I found a key to transcend previous limitations. — Russell Brand

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered. — Cheryl Strayed

She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged, somewhere, to somebody. She had belonged to no one, for she had never wanted chick nor child. Her idea of home had been any side-alley entrance and a pint of tinted gin. All she had ever striven for was small change left lying by strangers on North Clark Street bars; and any man's bottle at all. — Nelson Algren

That's what music did. It made you feel.
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Music, her grandfather always told her, was language. A special language, a gift from the Muses, something all people are born understanding but few people can thoroughly translate. — Sara Zarr

As my friend Amy observed: "Divorce is like a Polaroid picture. What truly happened will develop over time and you will see. — Augusten Burroughs

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? — Arthur Conan Doyle