Del Carmen Quotes & Sayings

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say ... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence. — Alain De Botton

Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them. — Cesare Beccaria

If a friend had a coronary scare and finally started exercising three days a week, who would hound him about the other four days? It's the worst of bad manners - and self-protection, I think, in a nervously cynical society - to ridicule the small gesture. — Barbara Kingsolver

All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn't lift up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer as scarecrows in the garden are like people. The name and appearance might be there, but the essence is missing. — Martin Luther

mature great-nephew. — Alan Wilson

My own aches and bruises and cuts and wounds pained me, but it was an honest, stretchy pain, something that was healing. — Jim Butcher

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often. — C.S. Lewis

The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community. — Maria Del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu Y Franco

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. — Donna Tartt