Delgados In English Quotes & Sayings

And just as he who, with exhausted breath,
having escaped from sea to shore, turns back
to watch the dangerous waters he has quit, so did my spirit, still a fugitive,
turn back to look intently at the pass
that never has let any man survive. — Dante Alighieri

For once in my life, I wished Mr. Bradshaw had slipped a tracker into my shoe or my coat pocket. I wished that he was still keeping tabs on me, even when I told him that I didn't need him to, or that I could take care of myself.
Because the truth was that I knew I'd always need help along the way. I needed help now, and at some point in my life I'd need help again. — Embee

I think it was the institution ... I was trying to master it. — E. Lockhart

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was. — John Suckling

I think most character people that you talk to, it's like, whatever they offer us, we are thrilled to do. I won't do anything that's immoral or illicit. I did turn down eating a dead body once. I turned down a few really creepy horror movies. For the most part, I can usually find a way into whatever character. — Beth Grant

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey

Education is a light for self awaken. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? — M.C. Escher

The more a happy and positive person you are, The more successful and easy your life will be. — Karuna

He rode home with her to New Jersey and she took him into the backyard to look at her father's roses . . . to look at her childhood, to look at what pricked and stung and was difficult to forgive. He looked at the house and the yard and her family . . . And it seemed to her that everything changed. Was forgiven. The — Kathleen Collins

Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness. — Christa Wolf

Because it doesn't seem like living to me, it seems like persevering, like it's the most I can hope for. — Gayle Forman

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation. — Mahatma Gandhi