Feixes De Luz Quotes & Sayings

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. — Robert Jordan

Yet in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all those with a take on the future of the potato crisp, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.
Our era is perverse in passing off an exception as a rule. — Alain De Botton

It is my hope that all of the Republicans who recognize that nominating a candidate who agrees with Hillary Clinton on a host of issues, who has a very similar record, is not the path to victory. And if we come together, if conservatives stand together, we're going to have a great night on Tuesday. — Ted Cruz

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations. She should have warned them, but her devotion cautioned against impertinence. As long as Sir was alive it was easy to veil the truth: that they were not a family-not even a like-minded group. They were orphans, each and all. — Toni Morrison

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. — William Tyler

I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that - years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day. — Agatha Christie

Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people. — Eyden I.

Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be. — Rhawn Joseph

King of kings, that must be Elvis. — Frank Zappa

Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five years, it's this: if a piece of your house falls off and you don't know what to do with it, throwing it in the trash and forgetting about it is a perfectly viable option. — Meghan Daum

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo. — Georges Bidault

Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it. — Mark Cuban

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve