Castigados In English Quotes & Sayings

God help those who do not help themselves. — Wilson Mizner

Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose. — Adrian Goldsworthy

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture. — Jonas Mekas

A rise in body temperature during sulphonamide treatment intensifies the biochemical reaction between drug and pathogen, while at the same time the heat itself injures the heat-sensitive gonococci. — Gerhard Domagk

That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day, and immediately I woke during the night, a curtain would rise and the play would begin: always the same play, Sarah making love, Sarah with X, doing the same things that we had done together, Sarah kissing in her own particular way, arching herself in the act of sex and uttering that cry like pain, Sarah in abandonment. I would take pills at night to make me sleep quickly, but I never found any pills that would keep me asleep till daylight. — Graham Greene

Ten percent tithes is unbiblical; God is not interested in numbers. — Felix Wantang

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? — Antonio Damasio

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?'
'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject. — Dick Francis

You're going to fly a radioactive ice ball the size of the Death Star back here just as the shit is hitting the fan - then what? — Neal Stephenson

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. — George Edmund Street

Why should some poor animal die just because it tastes good to us? — Oliver Bowden

And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly. — Wendell Berry

All this so-called esoteric knowledge about chakras, energy field, kundalini, astral bodies, is dangerous as knowledge.
As an experience, it is totally different thing.
Don't acquire it as knowledge.
If it is needed for your spiritual growth, it will come to you in its right time, and then it will be an experience. — Osho

You listened for the rapping on the door, which might come in the early hours of the morning, and tried to think if there was anything you had missed. You went upstairs again and checked the shelves and made sure that any entries in the telephone book had been scratched out. It was impossible to live without leaving clues. Suddenly, as if a knife was buried in you up to the hilt, you yearned for life in an ordinary country, ordinary happiness and unhappiness. — Imraan Coovadia