Destello En Quotes & Sayings

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. — George Santayana

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ... — John C. Calhoun

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them. — Don Cheadle

Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. — Alvar Aalto

It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive. — Stephenie Meyer

It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only - those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned. - Colton — Colton Robinsmith

A life without goal is a ship without rudder! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mysticism - Magic and Yoga - is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take. — Israel Regardie

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny. — Noel Gallagher

I do not trust people who do not wear a wrist watch. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Perhaps the greatest lesson she'd learned was that the quality of one's relationships had less to do with time spent together than with the manner in which it was spent. — Linda Kay Silva