Convergentes Quotes & Sayings

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it. — Henry Hampton

Women try to be the best everywhere, and it's impossible. I want my clothes to give women the freedom to just be - I want them to put on my dresses and shine. — Alber Elbaz

But all these systems of 'education' lack provisions for freedom of experiment, for training and for expression of creative abilities by those who are to be taught. In this respect also all our pedagogues are behind the times. — James C. Scott

Darkness makes any woman fair. — Ovid

To be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty. — Virginia Henley

When you try not to think of something, you do that by creating this verbal rule: "Don't think of x." That rule contains x, so it will tend to evoke x, just as the sounds "gub-gub" can evoke a picture of an imaginary animal. Thus, when we suppress our thoughts, we not only must think of something else, we have to hold ourselves back from thinking about why we are doing that. If we check to see whether our efforts are working, we will remember what we are trying not to think and we will think it. The worrisome thought thus tends to grow. If — Steven C. Hayes