Elena Mendoza Quotes & Sayings

It follows that there are two different types of change: one that occurs within a given system which itself remains unchanged, and one whose occurrence changes the system itself. — Paul Watzlawick

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau

I began keeping diaries after they locked Rosemary up at Butler and I went to live with Aunt Elaine in Cranston until I was eighteen, but even the diaries can't be trusted. For instance, there's a series of entries describing a trip to New Brunswick that I'm pretty sure I never took. It used to scare me, those recollections of things that never took place, but I've gotten used to it. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

I'm just physically stupid. — Peter Capaldi

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture. — Ariel Pink

When we push life, life pushes back. When we let go, things begin to flow ... direction unknown though ! — Wali

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817) — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never show a weakness; never show pain. The vulnerable get eaten. She would break down later when she was alone, but neither he nor anyone else would ever see it. — Ilona Andrews

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us. — Ernest Becker

What was the point of loving when the people you loved were taken from you? When Death and Time were always looming and poised to strike, why did love exist? — Alexandra Monir

I just play for fun. — Anna Kournikova

There had been times when missing him had felt like someone had reached inside her and pulled out the part of her that remembered how to breathe. And times when she'd barely given the memories of him a second's worth of her time. — Megan Hart

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world. — Thomas A. Edison

Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love. — Julian Barnes

I know from experience that confidence alone can get a person into a forbidden place. — Veronica Roth