Despojados In English Quotes & Sayings

Don't you find it striking? The personality is constantly dying and it feels like continuity. Meanwhile, we panic about death, which we cannot ever experience. Yet it is this illogical fear that motivates our lives. We gore each other and mutilate ourselves for victory and fame, as if these might swindle mortality and extend us somehow. Then, as death bears down, we agonize over how little we have achieved. — Tom Rachman

Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market. — E.W. Howe

The president(Obama) comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He's an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion. — John McCain

What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? — David Levithan

Jean-Yves looked up at his mother's face, her greying chignon, her harsh features: it was difficult to feel a rush of tenderness, of affection for this woman; as far back as he could remember, she had never really been one for hugs; it was equally difficult to imagine her in the role of a sensual lover, a slut. He suddenly realised that his father must have been bored shitless his whole life. He felt terribly shocked by this, his hands tensed on the edge of the table: this time it was irreparable, it was definitive. In despair, he tried to recall a moment when he had seen his father beaming, happy, genuinely glad to be alive. — Michel Houellebecq

General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives. — Suetonius

We need a Jesus or a Buddha or.. — Glenn Beck

I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice. — Ricky Williams

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people's lives, not just their own bank balances. — Richard Branson

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are? — Paul Newman

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time. — Thomas Piketty

The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past. — Shams Tabrizi

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. — Gabirol