Cotidiana En Quotes & Sayings

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter. — Mel Gibson

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink. — John Muir

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. — Abraham Lincoln

They who are at work abroad are not cold, but rather it is they who sit shivering in houses. — Henry David Thoreau

The art of life requires pigments from distant lands. — William Widmaier

However, the crowds all the while maintained their mouse-tense hush, their air of urgency. Fear. There was a reek of it everywhere, Mosca realized, in every guarded glance or falsely friendly backslap. A clammy smell, like rotten leaves. And everybody went about their lives in spite of it, because fear was part of their lives. — Frances Hardinge

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky! — Rainer Maria Rilke

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). — Julio Cortazar

Government is essentially the negation of liberty. — Ludwig Von Mises

Many young people strangely boast of being "motivated"; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're being made to serve, just as their elders discovered, not without difficulty, the telos of the disciplines. The coils of a serpent are even more complex that the burrows of a molehill. — Stephen Graham