Efectivas Quotes & Sayings

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front. — John Irving

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up. — Albert Ellis

I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn't the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression. — Andre Kertesz

The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market. — Ludwig Von Mises

The younger man stepped away from the table and came toward me, his whole posture radiating menace. Every Darre woman is taught to deal with such behavior from men. It is an animal trick that they use, like dogs ruffling their fur and growling. Only rarely is there an actual threat behind it, and a woman's strength lies in discerning when the threat is real and when it is just hair and noise. — N.K. Jemisin

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often. — Ned Beauman

When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao — Lao-Tzu

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. — Tanith Lee

In spite of what we say, we don't want happiness. It's simply not enough to satisfy our deepest longings. We are looking for something more, something transcendent - a reason to be happy. — Jeff Goins