Ingrata Significado Quotes & Sayings

You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at you sidelong, with a look that is both piercing and intimate, and if you let them sit beside you, they will tell you long lies about numerous children who are all gone now, and mothers who were beautiful and cruel, and in every case they will tell you that they were abandoned, disappointed, or betrayed--that they should not be alone, that only remarkable events, of the kind one reads in a book, could have made their condition so extreme. And that is why, even if the things they say are true, they have the quick eyes and active hands and the passion for meticulous elaboration of people who know they are lying. Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever been otherwise. Loneliness is absolute discovery. — Marilynne Robinson

The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface. — Jeanloup Sieff

Don't be closer to twice a friend's weight than to her actual weight, I told myself. This little mantra has helped me stave off obesity for more than two decades. — Mindy Kaling

Children, awkward, isolate, their bodies crammed to bursting with caffein and sugar and pop music and cologne and perfume and hairgel and pimple cream and growth hormone-treated hamburger meat and premature sex drives and costly, fleeting, violent sublimations. It's all part of the conspiracy ... all of it trying to convince them that they're here to be trained for lives of adventure and glamor and heroism, when in fact they're here only to be trained for more of the same, for lives of plunking in the quarters, paying a premium for the never-ending series of shabby fantasies to come, the whole lifelong laser light show of glamorous degradation and habitual novelty and fun-loving murder and global isolation. — Alex Shakar

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side. — Robbie Savage

Beta Male gene has survived not by meeting and overcoming adversity, but by anticipating and avoiding it. — Christopher Moore

Friendship is but a name. I love no one. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I think that generally, being honest with oneself and others about what you are or are not capable of doing can counteract that feeling of lack of self-confidence. — Dalai Lama XIV

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. — J.D. Salinger

Most of us are unaware of our deep-seated faith in numbers. — Carl Eckart

You can't help how you feel and I understand that. Sometimes a person can't talk their heart out of how it feels, despite how hard you try. — Terry Goodkind

Baking is ... Life. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes.. — Jenny Colgan

You made my life Holly, and I'm just one chapter in yours. There will be more. I promise. — Cecilia Ahern