Guardadas Quotes & Sayings

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum, — Larry Page

I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too. — Isabel Allende

Peeta" I said "Stay with me"
I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always — Suzanne Collins

It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites. — Samuel Johnson

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise. — Pope Francis

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? — Charles Dickens

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there. — Ben Okri

Sure, I saw enlisted men everyday, but once they donned their uniforms and committed their lives, they became a mirage. The minute you approached them, you knew they would disappear bit by bit until the only thing left was a memory. — Kathryn Miller Haines