El Comando Exclusivo Quotes & Sayings

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes. — Mary Norris

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night. — Tom Waits

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation. — Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

A true Seeker, one who can make a difference, must show himself to be a Seeker. The wizard doesn't point to someone and say, 'Here is the Sword of Truth, you will be the Seeker.' He doesn't really have a choice in the matter. — Terry Goodkind

He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration. — Al-Ghazali

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. — Edward Abbey

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. — Sydney Smith

I know," I say, slapping the ash off my palm. The words rush from my mouth before she says them. It's easier to hear it in my own voice. "I ruined your body. Killed your husband. — Shaun David Hutchinson

If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people. — Kay Redfield Jamison

When I was a grown-up I was just like you, and I did all the things you do. But it was hard to be that tall, so I decided I'd be small. — Nichole Hansen

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness. — C.S. Lewis

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman. — Erich Leinsdorf