Definitivamente Quotes & Sayings

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope. — Robert Jackson Bennett

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. — Woodrow Wilson

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography. — Ralph Gibson

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. — O. Henry

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore. — Karen Finerman

Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake. — Viktor E. Frankl

[ ... ] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable. — Charles Dickens

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience. — Terry J. Lundgren

The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes. — Virginia Postrel

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem. — Peter Ginter

Often when you go into a relationship with someone you like, you have to justify why you like that person. You only see what you want to see and you deny there are things you don't like about that person. You lie to yourself just to make yourself right. Then you make assumptions, and one of the assumptions is "My love will change this person." But this is not true. Your love will not change anybody. If others change, it's because they want to change, not because you can change them. Then something happens between the two of you, and you get hurt. Suddenly you see what you didn't want to see before, only now it is amplified by your emotional poison. Now you have to justify your emotional pain and blame them for your choices. — Miguel Ruiz

Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble. — Robert Louis Stevenson