Desdichado In English Quotes & Sayings

For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed. — Babatunde Fashola

A time is one's own, Eva, when oneself and one's peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise, a man is ruined when the times change but he does not. Permit me to add, empires fall for the same reason. — David Mitchell

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back? — P. J. O'Rourke

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind. — Francis Quarles

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery. — Robin Sharma

windows back home. Very occasionally we saw a sheepish looking tourist step inside their doors, or a resigned looking local, but for the — Scarlett Skyes

You know I would fight to the death to keep sacred what we have. — Sadie Conall

Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,
but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit,
nor in the air, nor in our lives,
nor on these terraces of billowing smoke.
The genuine pain that keeps everything awake
is a tiny, infinite burn
on the innocent eyes of other systems. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I turned and looked out the window at the snow and tried to think of the year-round sunshine in California. I tasted salt as tears streamed down my face and into my mouth. Marge said, "You can't move. — Madelon Phillips

The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers. — Hertzan Chimera