Convencion Americana Quotes & Sayings

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him — George Plimpton

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget. — Gary Wolf

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things. — Martial

You got caught up in some fantasy, and now you can't see anything at all. — Meg Wolitzer

Very sorry to disappoint you, guys. It was not for my girlfriend but for Sachin Tendulkar. — Yuvraj Singh

A strong soul recovers from any suffering. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison

He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers and the man falls. I've seen Billy hook men's livers and punch at their hearts. I've seen him break a man's nose in the ring, shatter an eardrum, close an eye. I've seen him hit a man so hard, fist to jaw, the man seemed to fall asleep before he fell, his body so relaxed his face looked calm even when his head slammed against canvas. — Adam Berlin

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service. — Chris Brown

Well, youre not incorrect on either front, because absolutely, there are children here in this country that need help as are everywhere in the world. — Gary Sinise

We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition — William Gibson

I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day ... — Robert Frost