Ediciones Obelisco Quotes & Sayings

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. — Henri Frederic Amiel

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people. — Steven Magee

Our society doesn't promote self-acceptance and it never will. First of all, self-acceptance doesn't sell products. Capitalism would fall if we liked ourselves the way we are now. Also, people who feel shamed and inadequate themselves tend to pass it on. I'm sure you've noticed that many individuals and groups try to enhance their self-esteem by diminishing others. — Harriet Lerner

I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams. — Jim Thome

Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn't there. — Cameron Jace

They say you don't know what you don't know until you know that you don't know it. — Neil Leckman

The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the state to make all the choices in respect of their health care. It's a curious inversion of citizenship to demand control over peripheral leisure activities but to contract out the big life-changing stuff to the government. — Mark Steyn

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it. — Michelle Obama

Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it? — Mabel Collins

In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work. And in fact my hope was realized, up to a point; for I have seldom felt so carefree as I did then, walking for hours in the day through the thinly populated countryside, which stretches inland from the coast. — W.G. Sebald

All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out. — Erin Hunter

Change is the one thing we can be sure of. — Naomi Judd

Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity — Kano Jigoro