Congreso De Los Diputados Quotes & Sayings

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. — William Thomas Green Morton

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached. — Naomi Watts

We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free. If we did not pay for plumbing or auto repair, we would not expect to drink water or drive cars. Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for. — Timothy Snyder

In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding - in time, in space, in culture. For one cannot even really see one's own exterior and comprehend it as a whole, and no mirrors or photographs can help; our real exterior can be seen and understood only by other people, because they are located outside us in space, and because they are others. — Mikhail Bakhtin

I feel at home in an orchestral score. — Placido Domingo

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. - — Bella Abzug

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once. — Judy Blume

It would be autumn, and our fathers would be out threshing in the fields. We would walk through the mulberry groves, past the big loquat tree and the old lotus pond, where we used to catch tadpoles in the spring. Our dogs would come running up to us. Our neighbours would wave. Our mothers would be sitting by the well with their sleeves tied up, washing the evening's rice. And when they saw us they would just stand up and stare. "Little girl," they would say to us, "where in the world have you been? — Julie Otsuka

If we are going to be serious about enforcing the law, we have to have a background record check system to make sure that people don't get weapons who shouldn't. — Tim Kaine

You'll never know your strength if you avoid your challenges — Al King

She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own — Salman Rushdie

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit. — Mark Twain

It was on the earth that the love of God was revealed through Christ. It is on the earth that His children are to reflect this love through blameless lives. Thus — Ellen G. White