Fuero Comun Quotes & Sayings

Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result. — Ernie J Zelinski

Finally, my mother's training will be put to good use. Never mind finding an eligible bachelor, I mean to find a murderer. — Alyxandra Harvey

I didn't fully process this concept until I was on my way back to the States. A few thousand feet over the Atlantic, I began to unpack this idea I had held, unquestioned, for so long. Was having an adventure really about doing the most daring, bold, energetic thing? Was it about having stories to tell at cocktail parties? Was it about freedom and travel and not being tied down? Or did it have something to do with your own heart and your own courage, in whatever form that came? — Various

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony. — Theodore E. Steinway

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society. — Richard Jenkins

They think that the past is dead. They don't see that the past is just the beginning of the future. — Wen Spencer

You of all people, who seem to know things about me before I myself do. You know this is right. — Jessica Brockmole

Iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be? — David Levithan

This figure, which I had so vaguely, idly, noticed before was now utterly changed in my eyes. The whole world was its background. And between me and it there hovered, perhaps for the last time, the vision of a slim long-legged girl with gleaming thighs. I ran. — Iris Murdoch

I'm not trying to prove anything. — Rita Wilson

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge. — Michael Shurtleff

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future. — Dalai Lama

I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself occupied. But that allows other things to happen which I'm not controlling ... the more I exercise my conscious mind, the more open the other things may find that they can come through. — Bridget Riley