Edvan Santos Quotes & Sayings

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi

I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would have probably gone to prison. And it cost them absolutely everything. — Thighpaulsandra

Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
(Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day) — Delmore Schwartz

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

I never had to plan what to write and I never calculated the amount of money I can make with books. Since I started writing, God has put into my life more experiences, knowledge and interesting people than what I can describe in my writings. — Daniel Marques

I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both. — Kristen Stewart

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. — Erica Jong

In a desperate bid to reestablish civilized talk and decorum, Miss Hisselpenny said, quite loudly, I see they are bringing in the fish course. What a pleasant surprise. I do so love fish. Don't you Mr., uh, Dubh. It is so very, um, salty. — Gail Carriger

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible. — Aristotle.

If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will. — James Altucher