Iniciantes Quotes & Sayings

Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq. — Katie Couric

Extremely self-conscious in its craft, in many ways The Hand of Ethelberta is an exploration of fiction as illusion, which involves parody of the conventions it employs; romance, melodrama and farce, and a rejection of realism for absurdist and surrealistic effects. The 'hand' of Ethelberta is an obvious, ironic allusion to courtship, and the sub-title, 'A Comedy in Chapters', suggests the novel's affinity with the conventions of Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy of manners. — Geoffrey Harvey

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. — Homer

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe. — A.R. Ammons

It is far better to cannibalize yourself than have someone else do it, — Brad Stone

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. — William Throsby Bridges

I'm sorry I hurt your hand ... with my face.
-Bobby Pendragon — D.J. MacHale

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart. — Jack Kornfield

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. — Fannie Lou Hamer

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that. — Tracy Chevalier

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too. — Ryan Hall

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish? — Phyllis McGinley