Figueira Da Quotes & Sayings

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. — Baltasar Gracian

He said there were going to be literary parties. I tried to imagine a literary party and was unable to. It was a very abstract effort, like trying to imagine a triangle or a cube. Wearing a suit made me feel even more abstract. I had a mental picture of me inside my suit, inside a party, inside a building, inside San Francisco. I didn't know what I was doing, inside so many things that were unlike me. — Larry McMurtry

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre. — Stuart Price

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything. — Sergei Bubka

Nature finds its peace in silence, forgiveness, and universal love. — Debasish Mridha

Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on festering thoughts - voices gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast. — Frank Herbert

The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man. — Maria Montessori

Unfortunately, I also hated him, absolute loathed him. Ah, well, most of the time. Sometimes. Pretty much whenever I gazed upon his perfection and started lusting after him. Yeah, that's when I hated him. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

How Your Own Mind Works You have a mind, and you should learn how to use — Joseph Murphy

Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe. — Elizabeth Jane Howard