Costaguanaro Quotes & Sayings

There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad ... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — Thomas Hobbes

I'm not stupid, I know your heart's involved in this and I've never, not once in all the time you've known me, given you the idea that I won't handle it with care. — Kristen Ashley

It's compulsive but we actually find the painful repetition pleasurable." He took another sip. "It doesn't sound pleasurable." "It's how we self-soothe. How we maintain the illusion that we are in control of our lives. For example, you repeat 'Pick up' in hopes that the outcome each time will be different. And you are repeatedly embarrassed, are you not?" He waited for me to respond but I wouldn't meet his eyes. "You are hoping to master the experience. The pain is what we know. It's our barometer of reality. We never trust pleasure." Every time Howard looked at me I felt bare. — Stephanie Danler

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to a few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solititude and want of faith in himself and others. — Joseph Conrad

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. — Thom Yorke

We work and that is godlike. — J.G. Holland

Ellen might have known her best friend would think of something like that. — Beverly Cleary

Siva asking about my past? Were we going to sing campfire songs and hold hands now?

Sloane — Micalea Smeltzer

If I could simplify the Christian life to one thing, it would be obedience. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

I'm unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moment when I was very dramatic and thought, 'I'm not going to live through this. I'm going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.' — Shannen Doherty

I got taken in by my uncle Frankie, know to his friends as Butcher Franchetti and to his enemies as 'Oh God no, don't kill my children, Don Franchetti'. — Garth Ennis

If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way. — Caterina Sforza

Life is about holding on and letting go. — Keith Urban

One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate your own wit. Of course, this can be carried too far. But it's kind of cool when you crack up a piece of writing, and then realize you wrote it. I recommend this feeling. — Steven Brust