Compungido Sinonimo Quotes & Sayings

I spent my childhood and youth on the outskirts of the Alps, in a region that was largely spared the immediate effects of the so-called hostilities. At the end of the war I was just one year old, so I can hardly have any impressions of that period of destruction based on personal experience. Yet to this day, when I see photographs or documentary films dating from the war I feel as if I were its child, so to speak, as if those horrors I did not experience cast a shadow over me ... I see pictures merging before my mind's eye - paths through the fields, river meadows, and mountain pastures mingling with images of destruction - and oddly enough, it is the latter, not the now entirely unreal idylls of my early childhood, that make me feel rather as if I were coming home ... — W.G. Sebald

What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit. — Leo Tolstoy

So, you got shit-faced, spray-painted a barn with a lovely shade of Exorcist-green puke, fucked a donkey while you were there, and started a fist fight with a recovering, meth-addicted nun and her lovechild who were reenacting the nativity scene? — Kendall Grey

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! — Edgar Cayce

Presidents rise and fall according to how they handle a crisis - an invasion, a depression, a massive oil spill - but there's no glory in prevention, in foreseeing and forestalling and keeping the bad from getting worse. We know what happened when each president presided; they are often just as proud of what didn't happen. — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. — John Henry Newman

Satisfaction is like death. The day I'll be satisfied, I'll quit — Juhi Chawla

Poor, poor dear. Waiting must be so hard for you. I've heard Renier is an exquisite lover. All the Keepers gossip about him - the young Guardian who haunts their dreams." The smile on her glossy red lips was teasing and cruel. "But rules are rules. He's an alpha male, so his ... eagerness can be excused. Yours, however, is a disappointment. — Andrea Cremer

Anything past 90 days constitutes 'severe,' but all late payments stay on your report for seven years if reported. — Jean Chatzky

Fuck yeah," he answered. "The mistakes we make in life don't define us, Amy. The way we handle 'em after makin' 'em do. — Kristen Ashley

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out. — Maria Sharapova

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule. — Gretchen Rubin

During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back? — Jacque Fresco