Duplicado De Cedula Quotes & Sayings

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is. — Jean Plaidy

Elpis, the spirit of hope, stayed with humans so they wouldn't give up completely. They could always believe that things might get better. — Rick Riordan

Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made. — John Vianney

As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming. — Cameron Bright

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look. — Flannery O'Connor

Well, let us say inexplicable. There is no point in using the word "impossible" to describe something that has clearly happened. But it cannot be explained by anything we know. — Douglas Adams

When you're out of options, the best option is to do nothing. Play dead. The possum option. — Rick Yancey

All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions. — Barbara Myerhoff

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. — George Bernard Shaw