El Equilibrio Quotes & Sayings

Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes. — Seth Godin

Mirrors taught: Perhaps there were always at least two sorts of reality, what you credited, and what was true. — Tanith Lee

With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero or may even be negative. — William Happer

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. — C.S. Lewis

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

There's greatness in him. A magnitude of spirit. — Orson Scott Card

Fraud in the insurance industry is calculated to be $100 billion to $300 billion a year, a cost that gets passed directly to consumers in the form of higher premiums. All told, combined public- and private-sector fraud costs every household in the United States probably around $5,000 a year - or roughly the equivalent of working four months at a minimum-wage job. A hunter-gatherer community that lost four months' worth of food would face a serious threat to its survival, and its retribution against the people who caused that hardship would be immediate and probably very violent. Westerners — Sebastian Junger

He did not defy convention: when it did not interfere with whatever line of conduct he meant to pursue he conformed to it; and when it did he ignored it, affably conceding to his critics their right to censure him, if they felt so inclined, and caring neither for their praise nor their blame. — Georgette Heyer

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera. — Stefano Langone

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. — Wendell Berry

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Have you seen their teeny beards? I had more hair when I was born! — Markus Heitz

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead — Kwame Anthony Appiah

Something as straightforward as a difference could lead to something as complex as a breakdown. — Jeanette Winterson

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky. — Harvey Fierstein