Esperemos Quotes & Sayings

Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join — John Henry Newman

Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly. — Hillary Clinton

I don't think too much about awards. — Delmon Young

The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself. — Solange Nicole

Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end. — William Shakespeare

Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She's never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it. — Alice Sebold

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? — Albert Schweitzer

Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there. — Ron Currie Jr.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. — Simone Elkeles

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied ... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. — Heinrich Schliemann

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people. — Vincent Schiavelli

What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me up there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made simply to go about being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him and go he must. — H.G.Wells