El Pensar Quotes & Sayings

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems. — Leon Brown

No one answered. Wasting no time, Clementine speed-limped, doing — Brad Meltzer

He simply painted the portrait of some aristocratic Mesalina, and was tactful enough to let Cupid hold the mirror in which she tests her majestic allure with cold satisfaction. He looks as though his task were becoming burdensome enough. The picture is painted flattery. Later an 'expert' in the Rococo period baptized the lady with the name of Venus. The furs of the despot in which Titian's fair model wrapped herself, probably more for fear of a cold than out of modesty, have become a symbol of the tyranny and cruelty that constitute woman's essence and her beauty. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

It's funny how you can become something merely by forgetting who you once were. — Chrissy Moon

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people. — Kenneth Kaunda

It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people. — Mark Zuckerberg

The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality. — Alain De Botton

Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm. — Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

The most dangerous weapon that can be used against us is that of playing with our minds. — Ava Brown

The point of the silo was for the people to keep the machines running, when Jahns had always, her entire long life, seen it the other way around. — Hugh Howey

In this age of consumer activism, pinpoint marketing, and unlimited and immediate information, we want the impossible: products and producers that will assure us that we are fashionable, and that don't pollute, harm animals, or contain weird chemicals, that run on alternative energy, pay their workers good salaries, recycle their scraps, use natural ingredients, buy from local suppliers, donate generously to charity, donate in particular to their neighborhoods, and don't throw their weight around by lobbying. (Or maybe they should lobby for the right causes?) — Fran Hawthorne

If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love. — Anthony De Mello

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called 'Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for. — Geraldine Page