Formentera Real Estate Quotes & Sayings

I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it. — Andrew Jackson

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness. — Boris Pasternak

Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck. — Karen Russell

You start screaming. The screams are in Denise's voice, in your father's voice, in the voice of an innocent little girl, in voices you don't recognize and never will. You — Mike Allen

For the life of him, he couldn't figure why these East Enders called themselves black. He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But never licorice, which, to him, was real black. — Jerry Spinelli

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection. — Paul Auster

There must be a language that does not depend on words. — Paulo Coelho

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation. — Ramana Maharshi

I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying. — Sarah Monette