El Filibusterismo Character Quotes & Sayings

The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom of the race. They are renewed in time of conflict and danger. If the times in which we are now living do not bring a fuller understanding of the great traditions of the Western European peoples and an almost Messianic desire to affirm them, we are not worthy of that heritage. — Frederick Osborn

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching. — George Herbert

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. — Peter Lynch

I think you need to look in the mirror if you think that's gorgeous"
"Ha," Andrew said, grinning.
"We"re identical." Adam shook his head at his twin. "He's insulting both of us, you idiot — Jennifer L. Armentrout

There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit. — Gregory Maguire

Poison is a glyph for magical power itself: complex, concentrated, liberated in the hands of the elect, and disastrous in the hands of the fool. Its very nature is transmutative, changing all it touches, the maker and breaker of laws, policies, and epidemiological systems. — Daniel A. Schulke

Her attention remained divided between the page in her hand and, fifty feet away, the closed bedroom door. — Ian McEwan

A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics. — Rafael Correa

Jack," I said thoughtfully, "do you think of women as equals?"
He fitted a support bar against the frame. "Yes."
"Do you ever let a woman pay for dinner?"
"No."
"Is that why the room-service meal wasn't on my hotel bill?"
"I never let a woman pay for my food. I just said dinner was on you because I knew it was the only way you'd let me stay."
"If you think of women as equals, why didn't you let me buy you dinner?"
"Because I'm the man."

-Ella & Jack — Lisa Kleypas

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy. — Julia Cameron

Counting both Northerners and Southerners, more American lives were lost in the Civil War than in any other conflict. — Richard Shenkman

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced. — Jonathan Lethem

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way. — Craig D. Lounsbrough