Esfuerzate Y Quotes & Sayings

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter? — Rene Descartes

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. — Fay Weldon

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained. — Carlo Grante

She needed to stand, but her body felt strangely heavy, as if invisible weights were tugging on her limbs. Gravity here felt different, harsher - or was she injured? Glass placed her hand on her shin and gasped. Her legs were wet. — Kass Morgan

Some people don't want to hurt your feelings. — Nirav Sanchaniya

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
[Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.] — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise. — Sallust

To commit one's life to the Jesus Reality is far more than an intellectual undertaking. While the Reality of Jesus is a perspective, it is not a worldview in the sense of a particular cosmology, or a body of doctrinal knowledge requiring assent. Rather it is a Word that addresses our lives and speaks to our human condition. It demands that we examine our own hearts, take inventory of our human failings, and open our lives to forgiveness and grace. It breaks the illusions of our self-importance and self-reliance, and calls us to recognize the Spirit reality that already exists in our midst and already lives in our hearts. — John F. Baggett

Scriassine studied me in turn. "You're not so dumb, you know. Generally I dislike intelligent women, maybe because they're not intelligent enough. They always want to prove to themselves, and to everyone else, how terribly smart they are. So all they do is talk and never understand anything. What struck me the first time I saw you was that way you have of keeping quiet. — Simone De Beauvoir

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal. — Adolf Hitler

When the iron is hot, strike. — John Heywood

Witness two scenes. In one, an angry, bitter man beats another man to death in an alley in the Gadrobi District. In the other, a man of vast wealth conspires with equally wealthy compatriots to raise yet again the price of grain, making the cost of simple bread so prohibitive that families starve, are led into lives of crime, and die young. Are both acts of violence? — Steven Erikson

Funny how what's good for the gander is good for the goose...until it's your goose ~ The Duke of Lancaster — Catherine Hemmerling