Diego Forlan Quotes & Sayings

I thought about being placid, how quiet and comfortable it sounded, someone with knitting on her lap, with calm unruffled brow. Someone who was never anxious, never tortured by doubt and indecision, someone who never stood as I did, hopeful, eager, frightened, tearing at bitten nails, uncertain which way to go, what star to follow. — Daphne Du Maurier

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me. — Kevin McAleer

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid. — Seth MacFarlane

A virtuous man may have a choleric or a sanguine constitution, be gay or grave, unreproved, be firm till he is almost over-bearing, or weakly subsmissive, have no will or opinion of his own; but all women are to be levelled, by meekness and docility, into one character of yielding softness and gentle compliance — Mary Wollstonecraft

But I can't rewrite history. I can love only with what's left. — Suzanne Young

The bird and the elephant drink from the same river. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My doctrine of Scripture is based on my study of Scripture, not vice versa. — F.F. Bruce

You have the health you deserve. — Isabel Allende

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President. — Ambrose Bierce

I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door. — Wallace Stevens

Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can't play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules, and we can't enjoy the benefits of markets and courts without similar make-believe stories. But stories are just tools. They shouldn't become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality. Then we begin entire wars 'to make a lot of money for the cooperation' or 'to protect the national interest'. Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our life in their service. — Yuval Noah Harari

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. — Amy Grant

Du Bois sighed theatrically. "It's as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins. — Gavin G. Smith

When someone discovers something in their lives that really interests them, then they should be content with doing that - without having to go and lie on a beach once a year. — Bernd Becher

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over. — Rachel Weisz