Desconhecidos Quotes & Sayings

As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves. — Sam Wineburg

And try as we might, small magic never seems to win out over giant meat. — Matt Wallace

If someone has just hurt you or broken your heart, if someone has just died, all the grace you need is there-waiting for you to receive it. As long as we are pulled inward-despair and self attention, we aren't free to reach for God's grace. If we mean to leave ourselves alone, we must keep a hand free. — Eugenia Price

Nothing gold can stay. — Robert Frost

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face. — Kristin Gore

The first part, or the Aesthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely, the forms of space and time, which furnish mathematics with their object. Aesthetics thus divorced mathematics from reality, for it makes the condition of mathematics not the real, but a mental form of space and time. — Fulton J. Sheen

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing. — Rachel Cohn

I just feel like it's our job to take care of them. You know? And when you take care of someone, you should love them the way they are. Not try to make them different. — Catherine Ryan Hyde