Discusiones Entre Quotes & Sayings

One of the West's singular migrations
from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley
is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read ... — Gerald Haslam

At those critical junctures, the question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living. — Paul Kalanithi

The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex. — Taylor Mali

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. — Francis Chan

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way. — Richard Hamming

Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive. — John Osborne

I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing ... I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day. — Benjamin Spock

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. — Kurt Vonnegut

Man's inclination to justice makes democracy possible; but man's capacity for injustice makes it necessary.' The optimism we need to prevent ourselves from destroying our own democratic freedoms and, indeed, our own human habitat must be based on reasoned pessimism. — Bernard Crick

Everything that's happened since we met has led to this moment. There is only one woman I've loved before you, and there will never be another after you. — Jamie McGuire

What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better. — Devon Michael

It occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him
his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed. — Lauren Oliver

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it. — Dan Quisenberry