Escolastico In English Quotes & Sayings

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything. — Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

We don't attach to things; we attach to our stories about them. — Byron Katie

I am disgusted with the fact that men, in general, think they have an unmerited advantage of a penis and that women fail to understand how utterly vulnerable it is. — Nikhil Sharda

People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural. — Sherry K. White

I have your word?"
"You trust my word?"
"You're an idealistic fool. Of course. — Karen Marie Moning

I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I'm not the type of guy who's just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who's wide open. I can make the right pass. — Kevin Durant

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness. — William Shakespeare

Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, is more denials. They are now denying their own study. — Steve Fainaru

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that. — Hugh Grant

Good. And you know what Peregrine wants you to do. You know he wants you to help us?"
"I never said that," Perry said.
Time stopped. The look on Hess's and Sable's faces-and even the Guardians behind them-was worth and price Perry would need to pay. — Veronica Rossi

Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others. — Kate DiCamillo

You have to be comfortable in what you're wearing. — Nicole Richie

This is the same problem that established companies experience. Their past successes were built on a finely tuned engine of growth. If that engine runs its course and growth slows or stops, there can be a crisis if the company does not have new startups incubating within its ranks that can provide new sources of growth. Companies of any size can suffer from this perpetual affliction. They need to manage a portfolio of activities, simultaneously tuning their engine of growth and developing new sources of growth for when that engine inevitably runs its course. — Eric Ries

Birth equals create. — Ricki Lake