Despercebido Desapercebido Quotes & Sayings

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one — Joe Budden

Visit an elf outpost and you practically hear the banjos in the background. — M.L. Brennan

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed. — William P. Young

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare. And it is desperately unfair to the boy. He cannot live his parents' life over again for them. He cannot make up for their own lacks, their own unfulfillments. He cannot carry their torch
only his own. — Sydney J. Harris

Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes ... Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism , and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence. — E. O. Wilson

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers. — Chelsea Handler

You cannot decide how many children your parents will give birth to, but you can identify the sibling(s) (if any) with whom you can have a healthy relationship. — Widad Akreyi

What's been coming to Becca, since all this began, is this: real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells schedules coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you won't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face. — Tana French

16They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger. 17After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child. 18All who heard the shepherds' story were astonished, 19but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often. — Anonymous

But the mall is a thing that should not be suffered. Except maybe for Cinnabon. — Kendare Blake

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States. — John C. Calhoun

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. — E. E. Cummings

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time. — Dan Deacon

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary. — Jackie Chan

Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again. — Roberto De Vicenzo