Convirtiendolos Quotes & Sayings

In the morning I walked to the bank. I went to the automated teller machine to check my balance. I inserted my card, entered my secret code, tapped out my request. The figure on the screen roughly corresponded to my independent estimate, feebly arrived at after long searches through documents, tormented arithmetic. Waves of relief and gratitude flowed over me. The system had blessed my life. I felt its support and approval. The system hardware, the mainframe sitting in a locked room in some distant city. What a pleasing interaction. I sensed that something of deep personal value, but not money, not that at all, had been authenticated and confirmed. A deranged person was escorted from the bank by two armed guards. The system was invisible, which made it all the more impressive, all the more disquieting to deal with. But we were in accord, at least for now. — Don DeLillo

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness. — Maximilien Robespierre

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection — Thomas Ligotti

Wanna know what heaven is ? Feeling the sun shine on you ... In Paris — Rachel Zoe

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else. — Seth Godin

I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous. — Alex Colville

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them. — Nicole Kidman

I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool. — Max Minghella

Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another — Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon. — Diana Ross

My hopes were all dead
struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which had been my master's
which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr Rochester's arms
it could not derive warmth from his breast. Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted
confidence destroyed! — Charlotte Bronte