Corchete Quotes & Sayings

We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it. — James Boswell

Who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself. — Eckhart Tolle

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother. — Muhammad

He who overcomes fear has overcome a hundred hurdles.
He who overcomes failiure has overcome a thousand hurdles.
He who overcomes folly has overcome a million hurdles.
He who overcomes his faults has overcome countless hurdles. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. — Oscar Wilde

A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page. — Keri Smith

I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow ... it is the honest state before the apple. — D.H. Lawrence

The genesis of my interest in being a writer can be traced to fourth grade when we listened to a radio production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and I asked the teacher if I could rewrite it for our class to present. Nothing like going head-to-head with the Bard, right?
I can still visualise the pages I filled creating this first "great" literary endeavor. Encouraged by teachers (and one doting grandmother), I went on to write reams of yearbook copy in high school and college and, then, to teach high school English. My "real" writing career didn't begin until I turned from education to the full-time pursuit of storytelling. — Laura Abbot

The crematorium could not burn the bodies fast enough - so after we dug long trenches, we pulled and dragged the bodies to the edges and threw them in. You'll not believe it, but the SS forced the prisoners' band to play music as we lugged the corpses - and for that, I hope they burn in hell with polkas blaring. — Mary Ann Shaffer

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine. — Terence McKenna

Wisdom is the winner over good luck. — Juvenal

I push my body off the ground, blood seeping between my toes. For the first time in over a century I stand on my own two feet. The gown I wear drapes off my shoulders, and my drenched skirts stick to my legs.
I am a thing made of lace and blood. Swathed in silk and dripping with the dark deeds of men. I suppose I'm finally clothed accordingly. — Laura Thalassa

There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room. — Shaun Derry

[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal — Megan Hilty

If it didn't happen, its because it wasn't meant to. — Jim Simpson