Galdos Spanish Author Quotes & Sayings

One gets used to success very quickly. The surprise was how deep and enduringly I was touching people, in such different places and throughout generations. — Michel Ocelot

Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become a Gnani [the enlightened one]. — Dada Bhagwan

Life's an adventure--wear comfortable shoes. — Linda Rettstatt

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about. — Dave Barry

Don't be upset that you can't attain constant happiness. It's the quickest way to feel like a failure in life. If each of our lives represented a page in a book, happiness would be the punctuation. It breaks up the parts that are too long. It closes off some things, divides others. But it's brief - showing up when it's needed and filling tired paragraphs with breaks. — Tarryn Fisher

A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that. — Frederick Lenz

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this? — David Ricardo

Finding peace and contentment with Evernight - two emotions he was certain he'd never found in bed with a woman before - was entirely unacceptable. When awake, the woman was prickly as a hedgehog and about as lovable as a block of ice. — Kristen Callihan

I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society. — Sanna Lenken

I was born for a very specific purpose. I wasn't the result of of a cheap bottle of wine or a full moon or the heat of the moonent, I was born because a scientist managed to hook my mother's eggs and my fathers sperm to create a specific combination of precious genetic material — Jodi Picoult

[ ... ] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it. — Rene Descartes

There are days I long to disappear in the wild, go back to the predator life I was meant to have. Kill the prey or be killed: it's in my genes.
A chimera, that's what I am. And this is my story. — E.E. Giorgi

Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them. — Frank Lautenberg