Chapoteando Hugo Quotes & Sayings

She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby. — Renata Adler

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth. — Nido R. Qubein

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. — E.W. Howe

From asking, become a guy who listens the 50-60% of the answers are there. — Deyth Banger

His words were then these as followeth: Know all men, he said, time's ruins build eternity's mansions. What means this? Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time. Mark me now. In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation. Omnis cam ad te veniet — James Joyce

The plaintiff cannot dive into the secret recesses of his (the defendant's) heart. — Frederick Romilly

He'd wanted us to be more like boys, and now we were. You don't teach boys to be charming. It makes people think they are devious. — Margaret Atwood

By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent. — Veerappa Moily

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his master's, ceased to trouble him. He crawled back into the brambles and laid himself by Frodo's side, and putting away all fear he cast himself into a deep untroubled sleep. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I pat Eden's head. I'll be right back okay? Stay on the bench. Don't go anywhere. If someone tries to make you move, you scream. Got it? — Marie Lu

Partly for this reason Sir Thomas Gresham had recently built the Royal Exchange, the most fabulous commercial building of its day. (Gresham is traditionally associated with Gresham's law - that bad money drives out good - which he may or may not actually have formulated.) Modeled on the Bourse in Antwerp, the Exchange contained 150 small shops, making it one of the world's first shopping malls, but its primary purpose and virtue was that for the first time it allowed City merchants - some four thousand of them - to conduct their business indoors out of the rain. We may marvel that they waited so long to escape the English weather, but there we are. — Bill Bryson

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that. — Ryan Potter