Ecuadorian People Quotes & Sayings

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim ... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti. — Ezra Pound

And Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next - and on and on. Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinions anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut

Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set. — Sergio Aragones

Laws are silent in times of war. — Pierce Brown

They had a sort of talent for happiness. — L.M. Montgomery

I'm not naked, I'm in the band. — Steven Wright

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface . — Aldous Huxley

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl. — Christina Aguilera

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have. — Lisa Kleypas

They will blow it, she thought. Each will cling to a sad little story of hurt and sorrow - some long-ago trouble and pain life dumped on their pure and innocent selves. And each one will rewrite that story forever, knowing the plot, guessing the theme, inventing its meaning and dismissing its origin. — Toni Morrison

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship. — Henry Ward Beecher

Those were the black ears; the lost years. He had allowed himself to become the victim of events, rather than their master. [Jakab] — Stephen Lloyd Jones

I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers. — Kristen Stewart

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next
and on and on. — Kurt Vonnegut

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever. — Ian Somerhalder