Certamen En Quotes & Sayings

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace. — Yuanwu Keqin

I took out my grenade and put my fingers inside the pin. 'Do you boys want this to be your last meal, or do you want to answer his question? — Ishmael Beah

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along. — E.B. White

I nodded and smiled enthusiastically. "Party!"
"Lend'll whine."
"He's cute when he whines."
"There's something wrong with you," she said.
There were a lot of things wrong with me, but loving Lend was definitely not one of them. — Kiersten White

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations — Winston Churchill