Evelynda Castillo Quotes & Sayings

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. — Confucius

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them. — Frank A. Clark

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest. — Moliere

The French writer Edmond About, who visited Greece in 1832, a dozen years after its independence, reports how peasants struggled with the metric system as it was completely unnatural to them and stuck to Ottoman standards instead. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Of all wines, Champagne is the one that is the anytime drink, the panacea for all ills, the best bottle for any occasion and absolutely the only solution when there is something to celebrate. — Serena Sutcliffe

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

I want you to make a habit of wanting me. — Truth Devour

The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire. — William Vaughn Moody

I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves. — Pam Houston

What will it be, stranger?" "Anything but a Canadian Club" replies the seal. — Various

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. — Cory Booker

You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely. — Robin Hobb

I am a tomboy and I love being with the boys and shooting guns and stuff. — Laurie Holden

He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things that seal his adolescence. He is just a running boy, a half-seen figure from the streets, but the way running reveals some clue to being, the way a runner bares himself to consciousness, this is how the dark-skinned kid seems to open to the world, how the bloodrush of a dozen strides bring him into eloquence. — Don DeLillo

Or guides might initiate a discussion of slave names. Many owners insisted on the right to name their newborn slaves - rather than allowing their parents this pleasure - and then deliberately gave them demeaning names or names that ironically invoked godlike figures from antiquity. George Washington, for instance, used Hercules, Paris-boy, Sambo, Sucky, Flukey, Doll, Suck Bass, Caesar, and Cupid. Most slaves received no last names. Guides could ask visitors to imagine the self-respect of black children under these conditions. — James W. Loewen