Conhece Lo Quotes & Sayings

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling. — Robert Payne

Skyscrapers! Unhealthy ugly giants! To live and work as close as to the land is a blessing! Remember, you are not a cloud! Come down and live on the ground! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of buzzing in my brain. Warmth. Life. The circulation of blood. Sanguinity. I don't know. I understood the enormous risk of telling the truth, how the telling could result in every level of hell reigning down on you, your skin scorched to the bone and then bone to ash and then nothing but a lingering odour of shame and decomposition, but now I was also beginning to understand the new and alien feeling of taking the risk and having the person on the other end of the telling, the listener, say:
Bad shit at home? You guys are running away?
Yeah, I said.
I understand, said, Noehmi. — Miriam Toews

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing

I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over. — Lindsey Vonn

His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible. — Anne Lamott

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. — Arthur Erickson

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one. — Joey Santiago

Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS. — Harry Belafonte

For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do. — Michael K. Williams