El Paraiso Perdido Quotes & Sayings

I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus. — Miguel Syjuco

Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent. — Mark Patterson

It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against political instability. Nobody is afraid that the money they place in the US is at risk of expropriation or of in some other way being taken away. For this safety, the wealth holders of the world are willing to accept a lower rate of return. — Milton Friedman

It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth. — Johann Rupert

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business. — Jack Kevorkian

No man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters. — William Faulkner

I don't have an attitude! And it CERTAINLY ... doesn't need to be adjusted! — Vickie Guerrero

But when the call came from Shirley Pedler to help in organizing the Utah Coalition Against the Death Penalty, she knew she would go out in the world again with her freaky blond hair, blond to everyone's disbelief - at the age of fifty-four, go out in her denims and chin-length-hanging-down-straight vanilla hair to that Salt Lake world where nobody would ever make the mistake of thinking she was a native Utah lady inasmuch as Utah was the Beehive State. The girls went big for vertical hair-dos, pure monuments to shellac. — Norman Mailer

I'm just a big old nerd. — Claire Danes

The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game. — Howard Wilkinson

Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed. — Andre Leon Talley

So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses strongly present even to the one who's lived it- maybe especially to the one who's lived it. I didn't seek to find her, wandered instead within and among her fragments of language-notebooks, drafts, journals, fictions, letters, essays, and found there whole worlds like spinning planets, lived in their cold light and burning light, wondering where I was, where they might take me. Curious, I heard a monster's voice and followed- — Laurie Sheck

It Hurts ... It Kills ... It Teaches ...
It Thrills ... "IT" Is LIFE ... ! — Sujit Lalwani

People could be built far greater in the Lord and be more wonderfully established if they would move out sometimes and think over the graces of the Lord. — Smith Wigglesworth

I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read. — Alberto Caeiro