Espanta Moscas Quotes & Sayings

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline. — Joe Whitney

I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.' — Henry Rollins

I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof. — Kola Boof

Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life. — Elizabeth George

The American craving for illegal, mind-altering, addictive chemicals provides a steady flow of American capital through the Texas border into Mexico and South America. Basically, the drug traffic is uncontainable as long as its U.S. market exists, but newspapers and other media virtuously trumpet feel-good headlines about "record drug busts" and arrests while the drug trade continues unabated. — William Earl Maxwell

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can. — Walter Jon Williams

Epictetus has had a long-standing resonance in the United States; his uncompromising moral rigour chimed in well with Protestant Christian beliefs and the ethical individualism that has been a persistent vein in American culture. His admirers ranged from John Harvard and Thomas Jefferson in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the nineteenth. More recently, Vice-Admiral James Stockdale wrote movingly of how his study of Epictetus at Stanford University enabled him to survive the psychological pressure of prolonged torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam between 1965 and 1973. Stockdale's story formed the basis for a light-hearted treatment of the moral power of Stoicism in Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full (1998).52 — Epictetus

The best training program in the world is absolutely worthless without the will to execute it properly, consistently, and with intensity. — John Romaniello

The years teach much which the days never know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a huge sucker for comfort. — Mia Wasikowska

There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention. — Michael Scott

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud. — Thomas Guthrie

If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated. — Denise Riley

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. — Phyllis McGinley

Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term ... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do. — Bill Maris