Derrotada In English Quotes & Sayings

Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit. — Sam McDowell

I'm being careful with here, Harlow told me, apparently irritated by something I hadn't even had the time to say yet. She was making assumptions about my no-fun-at-all-ness. They were good assumptions. — Karen Joy Fowler

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home. — Joe Biden

My existence is young like the blossoming leaves. I have experienced nothing yet. — Jasmine Sandozz

What a comfort the past is," Mimen said, "when the future offers none. — Ursula K. Le Guin

This whole illusion has its history in ways of thinking - in the images, models, myths, and language systems which we have used for thousands of years to make sense of the world. These have had an effect on our perceptions which seems to be strictly hypnotic. It is largely by talking that a hypnotist produces illusions and strange behavioral changes in his subjects - talking coupled with relaxed fixation of the subject's conscious attention. The stage magician, too, performs most of his illusions by patter and misdirection of attention. Hypnotic illusions can be vividly sensuous and real to the subject, even after he has come out of the so-called "hypnotic trance." It is, then, as if the human race had hypnotized or talked itself into the hoax of egocentricity. There is no one to blame but ourselves. — Alan W. Watts

Powerless rage can work miracles. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use. — Ozzy Osbourne