Emplasto Para Quotes & Sayings

There comes a period of the imagination to each
a later youth
the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. — Kit Williams

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter. — Kristen Heitzmann

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. — Emma Thompson

People who are criticizing ... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Nothing got more serious than allowing a tortoise to crawl across your kitchen floor. — J. Lynn

His moans become nasty, disgustingly malignant, and go on for whole days and nights. And of course he knows himself that he is doing himself no sort of good with his moans; he knows better than any one that he is only lacerating and harassing himself and others for nothing; he knows that even the audience before whom he is making his efforts, and his whole family, listen to him with loathing, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There was something that was killing the people in the interior, in the forest area, of the country, and nobody quite knew what it was. That lasted a good three months before it was officially declared that it was Ebola virus. So it started off in Guinea and spread quite slowly, but then spread over the border into Sierra Leone and Liberia. — Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you. — John Of The Cross

My grandfather always says is "too dry" even if it's soup. — Stephen Chbosky

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile — Isaac Asimov

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe — Rick Bragg

What the fuck? Didn't you tell him you had a boyfriend?" "I did. He asked if I loved you." "Who is this guy? What's he do?" "He's an accountant in Boston." "An accountant? Jesus Christ, didn't you tell him you're dating a fucking war correspondent? — Michael Hastings