Cenaida Uribe Quotes & Sayings

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying. — Laurence J. Peter

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor. — Laurie R. King

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars. — Ernest L. Boyer

We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are. — Orison Swett Marden

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty. — Marcus Aurelius

God's still in control. Just like He was two thousand years ago. — Karen Kingsbury

I thought that once an angry and disgusted God poured molten fire from a crucible to destroy or to purify his little handiwork of mud. I thought I had inherited both the scars of the fire and the impurities which made the fire necessary - all inherited, I thought. All inherited. Do you feel that way? — John Steinbeck

Let us suppose that someone is writing a story. From the world of conventional signs he takes an azalea bush, plants it in a pleasant park. He takes a gold pocket watch from the world of conventional signs and places it under the azalea bush. He takes from the same rich source a handsome thief and a chastity belt, places the thief in the chastity belt and lays him tenderly under the azalea, not neglecting to wind the gold pocket watch so that its ticking will, at length, awaken the now-sleeping thief. From the Sarah Lawrence campus he borrows a pair of seniors, Jacqueline and Jemima, and sets them to walking in the vicinity of the azalea bush and the handsome, chaste thief. Jacqueline and Jemima have just failed the Graduate Record Examination and are cursing God in colorful Sarah Lawrence language. What happens next? Of course, I don't know. — Donald Barthelme

From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy. — Simon Schama