Demostenes Las Piedras Quotes & Sayings

There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin. — Jia Zhangke

Yet he had a certain charm of manner, and I fancied that, if one really knew him well, one could have a deep affection for him. — Agatha Christie

You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it. — Leigh Bardugo

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment. — Garchen Rinpoche

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. — Jonathan Kozol

No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute. — Michel Foucault

If it is to be taken seriously again, the Left must find its voice. There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitation at home and abroad; corruption and money and privilege occluding the arteries of democracy. — Tony Judt

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it. — Maya Angelou

What I know is, if you do work that you love, and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. I truly believe the reason I've been so financially successful is because my focus has never been on the money. — Oprah Winfrey

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are. — Mary E. Pearson