Cortesia In English Quotes & Sayings

That easy, huh?" "You just have to decide to do it and then do it," she said. "Discipline. Follow through. Like anything. — Gillian Flynn

The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself, although she had never had doubts of the faith in which she had been brought up. She knew that the support of religion was possible only upon condition of renouncing what made up for her the whole meaning of life. She was not simply miserable, she began to feel alarm at the new spiritual condition, never experienced before, in which she found herself. She felt as though everything were beginning to be double in her soul, just as objects sometimes appear double to over-tired eyes. She hardly knew that times what it was she feared, and what she hoped for. Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said. — Leo Tolstoy

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools. — Doug Stanhope

I was so nervous before going out there — Natasha Kaplinsky

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says? — Helen McCloy

Every angel is terrible. And yet, alas
I welcome you, almost fatal birds of the soul,
knowing about you.
...
If the archangel came now, the perilous one,
from the back of the stars but one step lower and
toward us,
our own high beating heart would slay us. Who are you?
You early successes, spoiled darlings of creation ... — Rainer Maria Rilke

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing. — Pauline Collins

For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it. — Mary Hesse

My husband and I will always be two people living one life of perfect imperfection. — Nina Lane

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. — Milton Friedman

Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views. — Jim Talent

The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young. — Brother Theodore