Enemigas Karen Quotes & Sayings

Wasn't it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn't really wanted to do? Taking a hopelessly dull job to prove he could be as responsible as any other family man, moving to an overpriced, genteel apartment to prove his mature belief in the fundamentals of orderliness and good health, having another child to prove that the first one hadn't been a mistake, buying a house in the country because that was the next logical step and he had to prove himself capable of taking it. Proving, proving; and for no other reason than that he was married to a woman who had somehow managed to put him forever on the defensive, who loved him when he was nice, who lived according to what she happened to feel like doing and who might at any time - this was the hell of it - who might at any time of day or night just happen to feel like leaving him.
It was as ludicrous and as simple as that. — Richard Yates

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat. — Remedios Varo

You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Isaac needed to know if the thing between them was leading somewhere or if they were just going to be friends who sometimes petted each other's hair. — Avon Gale

I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion. — Don Shula

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely - beyond some point, almost entirely - on the things that others choose to buy. — Robert H. Frank

Life is real, and it's ugly, and it hurts. I've only ever loved three things in my life, and none of them worked out for me. — C.M. Stunich

Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was prepared, at a pinch, to forgo the tiger-skins. Unfortunately the beautiful women seemed equally rare and inaccessible. At his office and at his boarding-house the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements. — John Collier

If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life
that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. — Jack Canfield