El Diario De Hoy Quotes & Sayings

ADVENTINE (ADVE'NTINE) adj.[from advenio, adventum.]Adventitious; that which is extrinsically added; that which comes from outward causes: a word scarcely in use. As for the peregrine heat, it is thus far true, that, if the proportion of the adventine heat be greatly predominant to the natural heat and spirits of the body, it tendeth to dissolution or notable alteration.Bacon'sNatural History,No 836. — Samuel Johnson

Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully. — Richard P. Feynman

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file. — Matthew Stewart

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage. — Cynthia Ozick

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true. — Jaime Lerner

The thing about life, about change, is there are always lessons. Some are subtle, others not, and sometimes it takes being ripped out of your comfort zone to finally get it - then it's transformative. — Lorii Myers

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual — James Russell Lowell

Ser Loras lusts for glory as real men lust for women, the least the gods can do is grant him a death worthy of a song. — George R R Martin

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me. — Tammy Wynette

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity. — Joyce Carol Oates

Because our needs are our little daily dreams The little things to be done that project us into tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the future; trivial things that we plan to buy next week, allowing us to think that next week we'll still be alive. — Gregoire Delacourt

Her face was pale, her eyes as sad as when she looked at the ocean. — Rick Riordan

Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery. — Cynthia Ozick