Estanislau Basoras Age Quotes & Sayings

triremes with a half deck for carrying full sail and more sailors — Christian Cameron

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless ... And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come. — Maya Angelou

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant — Henry David Thoreau

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality. — Paulo Freire

I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and algebra, I was merely following memorized rules, plugging in numbers and dutifully crunching out answers by rote, with no real grasp of the significance of what I was doing or its usefulness in solving real-world problems. Worse, I knew the depth of my own ignorance, and I lived in fear that my lack of comprehension would be discovered and I would be exposed as an academic fraud
psychologists call this "imposter syndrome". — Jennifer Ouellette

Believe me, Doctor, if your life ends in suddenness you will be glad it did, and if it does not you will wish it had. You will want suddenness, Doctor. — Tea Obreht

I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered. — Billy Connolly

He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use. Leniency. Kindness. Contradiction. Forbearance. — Nina George

When creatively passionate people get together to start a company, the energy and camaraderie is really pretty stimulating. — Lee Clow

Fuck." He stares at me for a long time. "You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. This is the most beautiful thing I've ever felt."
And those are the most beautiful words that have ever been said to me. — L. H. Cosway

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day. — Gale Forman

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do. — Mike Quigley

I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit. — Pete Way

Girls dropping out of school because of early and unwanted pregnancies. The reason? They did not realize the value they possess in their body. — Sunday Adelaja