Coerencia Quotes & Sayings

In the years that I could not see him, I came to know my father through the medium of photography. My perceptions of him were forged on black-and-white squares that stole an instant out of history and immortalized it between the pages of a family album. When I summoned up the image of the man, it came to me frozen, black-bordered, flat. He stood pale above the creases of his uniform, framed in the foamy wake of some ship, drops of sunlight caught in the buttons on his jacket. He winked at me from the liberty ports of countless exotic places. In an atrocious hand he scrawled stilted, affectionate words to the stranger that bore his name and his features, telling of adventures far away, misbehavings under suns hotter than that which shone over the Greater German Reich. — Miles Watson

A man once said that the pinnacle of success Was when you've finally lost interest In money, compliments, and publicity A noble enough idea I suppose How on Earth he does this heaven only knows I know I need a lot more of all three of those Before I'll ever have the nerve to turn up my nose At any money, or compliments, or publicity — Todd Snider

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. — Paul Ryan

My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect. — Ryan Lilly

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify. — Dale Archer

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big. — Brigitte Bardot

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato. — James Nesbitt

Secrets never leave you in peace, however much you wish or pray. — James Clavell

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date. — Jesse Jackson

God remains the same - faithful, loving and powerful - through changes big and small. — Janet P. Eckles

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot. — Anna Paquin

The theologians,
the apologists, and their kin the metaphysicians, the high-handed
statesmen, and others, no longer interest me. All that has been spoilt for
me by the grind of stern reality! — Thomas Hardy

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia. — Walther Funk