Desarrollos Urbanos Quotes & Sayings

The pun is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure depths. — Victor Hugo

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young. — Wilkie Collins

I'd only wanted, desperately, for him to be a thing that I could have. — Joshilyn Jackson

Bad and bad and bad and bad move... and move and move just another checkmate... — Deyth Banger

I read a book called 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra that pointed out the parallels between quantum physics and eastern mysticism. I started to feel there was more to reality than conventional science allowed for and some interesting ideas that it hadn't got round to investigating, such as altered states of consciousness. — Brian Josephson

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. — James Stockdale

Call listened with amusement
not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep. — Larry McMurtry

In traveling about the city that day, Dodd was struck anew by the "extraordinary" German penchant for Christmas display. He saw Christmas trees everywhere, in every public square and every window. "One might think," he wrote, "the Germans believed in Jesus or practiced his teachings! — Erik Larson

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. — Ravi Zacharias

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. — Arthur Golden

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. — Lyndon B. Johnson