Desesperanza Aprendida Quotes & Sayings

Sat mindless and eternal on the kitchen floor, stony of head and solemn, playing with my fingers. Time streamed in full flood beside me on the kitchen floor; time roared raging beside me down its swollen banks; and when I woke I was so startled I fell in. — Annie Dillard

Everybody out there is winging it to some degree, of this we can be pretty sure. — Amanda Palmer

For the record, I thought you were untouchable. But now that I know you think I'm a hot, sexy, Mexican god . . — Simone Elkeles

No one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you? — Carrie Jones

Your brand of pain in the assedness extends greater lengths. It might even span dimensions. — Kristen Ashley

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out. — Linus Torvalds

No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
The heroes of old,
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
Of pain, darkness and cold. — Robert Browning

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking. — Helene Deutsch

The quintessential emblem of religion - and the clearest manifestation of the perversity that lies at its core - is the sacrifice of a child by a parent.
Almost all religious faiths incorporate the myth of such a sacrifice, and some have actually made it real. Lucretius had in mind the sacrifice of Iphigenia by her father Agamemnon, but he may also have been aware of the Jewish story of Abraham and Isaac and other comparable Near Eastern stories for which the Romans of his times had a growing taste. Writing around 50 BCE he could not, of course, have anticipated the great sacrifice myth that would come to dominate the Western world, but he would not have been surprised by it or by the endlessly reiterated, prominently displayed images of the bloody, murdered son. — Stephen Greenblatt

She's on the last few chapters of some book she's been reading. She can't stay away from it. We're used to it by now. We always find her reading at the oddest times. Don't we, babe? He says the last sentence a little louder to get her attention. — Jay McLean

Rock and roll is here to stay. — Neil Young

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children. — Armstrong Williams

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it. — Mike Quigley

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty! — Mario Puzo