Favalia Quotes & Sayings

I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life. — Allan Gurganus

An absolute joy to read - it stimulates and engages. Westney is asking new questions not addressed elsewhere ... and you will be drawn in by the author's inviting, yet quietly compelling style. — Patricia Powell

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. — Richard Wagner

Sometimes you need to do things that hurt in order to protect the ones you love. — Claire Contreras

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy. — Charles Spurgeon

Love begets love. That's God's way. — Anonymous

As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road. — Margaret MacMillan

That's more like it. You're much prettier when you aren't talking. True of most people, I've found. — Kiersten White

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work. — David Copperfield

The Indians were Araucanians from the south of Chile; several hundreds in number, and highly disciplined. They first appeared in two bodies on a neighbouring hill; having there dismounted, and taken off their fur mantles, they advanced naked to the charge. The only weapon of an Indian is a very long bamboo or chuzo, ornamented with ostrich feathers, and pointed by a sharp spear-head. My informer seemed to remember with the greatest horror the quivering of these chuzos as they approached near. When close, the cacique Pincheira hailed the besieged to give up their arms, or he would cut all their throats. As this would probably have been the result of their entrance under any circumstances, the answer was given by a volley of musketry. — Charles Darwin

As a young girl, and still to this day, I struggle with trying to figure everything out. Figure out why things happen, what they mean, and how they all work together. It sometimes drives me crazy. Not literally, but I do sometimes feel different. Like maybe I think too much. — J.W. Lord

When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money. — Daniel Bruhl

She wanted to yell at him, to beat his chest with her fists and accuse him of being addled and stubborn and blind. — Melanie Dickerson

Worship is when we give God His breath back — Louie Giglio

It's a lot easier to patch things up with somebody when he doesn't even know you were pissed off at him in the first place. — Steve Kluger