Cortinicara Quotes & Sayings

The world is evil only when you become its slave. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail. — Sheri L. Dew

How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Waving, not drowning. There are more important things in life than individual happiness. It was an easy trap to fall into, mistaking a lack of self-direction for an expression of love. — Lesley Lokko

Two Dutch researchers did a study in which they had groups of students answer forty-two fairly demanding questions from the board game Trivial Pursuit. Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand to think about what it would mean to be a professor and write down everything that came to mind. Those students got 55.6 percent of the questions right. The other half of the students were asked to first sit and think about soccer hooligans. They ended up getting 42.6 percent of the Trivial Pursuit questions right. The "professor" group didn't know more than the "soccer hooligan" group. They weren't smarter or more focused or more serious. They were simply in a "smart" frame of mind, and, clearly, associating themselves with the idea of something smart, like a professor, made it a lot easier - in that stressful instant after a trivia question was asked - to blurt out the right answer. — Malcolm Gladwell

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control. — Kit Williams

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes. — Charles Portis

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. — M.C. Escher

There's not a man on Earth who doesn't wish he was me right now. Your mind and your body will never forget the things I'm going to do to you tonight. Every ... single ... inch of your body is going to feel me."
"Oh my God."
"Yes. — Gail McHugh

It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick — Dave Barry

You couldn't catch a yawn from someone you didn't like. — Martin Amis

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. — Ian Stewart