Increasingly In Spanish Quotes & Sayings

Differences between Catholic and Protestant countries did not incite rivalries between European states, or cause the growing sense of national identity and, sometimes, isolationism that was developing among the countries of Europe. These were happening anyway, for a complex variety of political and economic reasons. But religious differences did, at times, contribute to them - for example in Spain, where the inward-looking institutions of the Counter-Reformation seemed aimed at creating a nation of soldiers and ecclesiastics in great contrast to the outgoing, trade-based, profit-minded society of the Calvinist Netherlands. These generalizations hide many local variations - there were busy Spanish merchants, and contemplative, spiritual, people in many Protestant lands. But travelers across Europe remarked on the increasingly striking differences between nations. — Fiona MacDonald

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed. — Chriscinthia Blount

Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby! — J.K. Rowling

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. — George Gershwin

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface. — Felix Buxton

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk. — Edward Snowden

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering. — Rod Stryker

Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you. — Tony Evans

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. — Jean-Pierre De Caussade