Cobrinha Quotes & Sayings

When the last nationwide smallpox epidemic began in 1898, some people believed that whites were not susceptible to the disease. It was called "Nigger itch," or, where it was associated with immigrants, "Italian itch" or "Mexican bump." When — Eula Biss

For what benefit is beauty, the greatest blessing of heaven, if it be mixed with affectation? What youth, if corrupted with the severity of old age? Lastly, — Erasmus

Whatever circumstance it is, if you always do your best, then you can't beat yourself up, basically. — Lexi Ainsworth

He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative. — Warren Winiarski

Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind. — Lita Burke

We should have a funeral," he said.
Pan held his hands clasped in a tent on his lap, and he bowed his head.
He seemed to be trying to recall something, and it was a long time before he finally said, "Our Father. Our Father. Our Father. Amen."
Then he leaned back, and his face was blank again. He smiled, all white teeth. "There. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues. — Amos Bronson Alcott

It's not your bullets I fear, Roland. It's your idea of answers that scares me. — Stephen King

Their monstrous forms represent the perverse defiance of normal categories and the confusion of identity associated with social and cosmic disorder. — Karen Armstrong

The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try. — Bill Vaughan

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted — Mary Renault