Esperabamos Quotes & Sayings

Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The — John Perkins

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one. — Thomas Carlyle

When I was presenting 'Animal Hospital,' the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife's mascara to darken it. — Rolf Harris

When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor. — Lissa Rankin

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated. — Nicholas Sparks

I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to. — Jemima Kirke

Marie-Laure sits in her customary spot in the corner of the kitchen, closest to the fireplace, and listens to the friends of Melanie Manec complain ... Nine of them sit around the square table, knees pressed to knees. Ration card restrictions, abysmal puddings, the deteriorating quality of fingernail varnish - these are crimes they feel in their souls. To hear so many of them in a room together confuses and excites Marie-Laure: they are giddy when they should be serious, somber after jokes; Madame Hebrard cries over the nonavailability of Demerara sugar, another woman's complaint about tobacco disintegrates mid sentence into hysterics about the phenomenal size of the perfumer's backside. They smell of stale bread, of stuffy living rooms crammed with dark titanic Breton furnishings. — Anthony Doerr

I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story. — Waris Ahluwalia

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. — Iphicrates

It was all terrible and tiring and meaningless. — Edna O'Brien

Separatio in Loco
He lives all alone now, in the home they bought,
and finally seems to be managing, more or less.
Not the way he was, of course, with her,
who lives alone now, too, at the same address. — Miller Williams

Scientifically speaking, the flesh was melted off the world. His body was macerated until only the nerve fibers were left. It was spread like a veil upon a rock. — Virginia Woolf

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor. — Bernie Siegel

I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists. — Pope Francis

Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear. — Shannon Miller