Esconderijo Quotes & Sayings

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. — Victor Hugo

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly. — Lu Yen-hsun

Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did. — Frances Perkins

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. — Stephen King

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man. — Victor Hugo

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process. — Peter Dicken

The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny. — Charles Simic

When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them.
"I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away. — Jonathan Maberry

Be aware of the company you keep. You'd be surprised how easily they rub off on you. You don't want to attract the wrong influence. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really. — Ian McKellen

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years. — Henry Ford