Contrarios Libro Quotes & Sayings

The words grace and gracious are used 169 times in the Bible. — Anonymous

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave — Aravind Adiga

Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it. — Cyril Connolly

I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come. — William Ellery Channing

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed — Ben Elton

I'd rather have five minutes of something amazing than a lifetime of nothing special — G.J. Walker-Smith

In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn. — George Vecsey

Never having been betrayed sets up poor preconditions for remaining faithful. Evolving into genuinely more loyal people requires us to suffer through some properly innoculative episodes, in which we feel for a time limitlessly panicked, violated and on the edge of collapse. Only then can the injunction not to betray our spouses evolve from a bland bromide into a permanently vivid moral imperative. — Alain De Botton

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! — William Shakespeare

Neal lowered his eyebrows, tenderly, like he was untangling something that might fall apart in his hands. He opened his mouth to speak, but Georgie leaned in — Rainbow Rowell

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work. — Tim O'Reilly

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine. — Chris Pratt

It's hard to know exactly how many empty houses there are...the census placed the figure, in the United States, in 2000, at about 10.5 million housing units (including apartments, counting duplexes as two, and so forth). For comparison: less than a quarter million people lived in homeless shelters in 2000. — Shay Salomon

Pathetic, Charlotte. You are a pathetic excuse for a woman. — Nalini Singh

To most women, friendship is not a luxury; it is an essential part of their being. — Sue Patton Thoele