Congreso De Angostura Quotes & Sayings

Everything our civilization has produced is entombed. — W.G. Sebald

The insurance companies involved had all claimed that this was, by any reasonable standards, an act of God. But, Dirk had argued, which god? Britain was constitutionally a Christian monotheistic state, and therefore any "act of God" defined in a legal document must refer to the Anglican chap in the stained glass and not to some polytheistic thug from Norway. — Douglas Adams

Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all. — Hermann Hesse

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either. — Elizabeth Berg

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. — Aleister Crowley

I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may." "Then you will degenerate still more, sir. — Charlotte Bronte

It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference.

But it was a start - and that was all that mattered. — Cole Gibsen