Contratantes Quotes & Sayings

How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose. — Andrew Marvell

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesn't it?"
Michelle said dryly.
"That the boy most likely to become the next Unabomber has a crush on you? — Carla Cassidy

Not as others had wanted to learn, for power or excitement, or for the prosecution of some enmity or private greed; but because he had seen, darkly with a child's eyes, how the gods move with the winds and speak with the sea and sleep in the gentle herbs; and how God himself is in the sum of all that is on the face of the lovely earth. — Mary Stewart

Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer. — E.C. Riegel

By the time the last of these relationships ended I was such a quaking mass of colliding, exploding neurotransmitter malfunctions that the only coherent sentence I could form in my native tongue went: Never again. — Merrill Markoe

I don't know whether my life has been useless and merely a misunderstanding, or whether it has a meaning. — Hermann Hesse

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on. — Paul Westerberg

Legendary manners there, Karim," she commented, her voice calm. "Your mother teach you?"

"I was taught the advantage of surprise," he responded as he walked over to her massive desk. — Katherine McIntyre

Consider how we use our time. Not everything is worth the portion of our life we give to obtain it. SOme things are better, and others are best. — Dallin H. Oaks

Don't worry about anything ... Go out and have a good time. — Richard P. Feynman

Joining Real Madrid is a dream come true. — David Beckham

No effort is ever wasted. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I like being in a weak position, and making it strong. — Kim Gordon