Insolente Atrevido Quotes & Sayings

Chances are given and taken, used and misused, but a chance never given is a chance never taken and a life never lived. — Joshua Smith

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. — Agnes Smedley

Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? — David Foster Wallace

I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world. — Edna Ferber

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. — Jean Cocteau

The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem. — Joe Klein

It's the closest place to nowhere that she can think of. And nowhere is exactly where she wants to be today. — Lisa Genova

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience. — Joan Didion

Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role. — Lenny Kravitz

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial. — Paul Hawken

I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work. — Helen Thomas

Then the Union forces burned the University of Alabama.' Uncle Wiggens opened and closed his fists, wriggling his fingers. I think they were supposed to be the flames, licking at the buildings. 'The Yankees didn't want you to have no education. If it hadn't been for General Lee, that's Robert E. Lee, mind you, none of you would be here today! — Kristin Levine

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price. — Eugene Habecker

You aren't lacking the thing that makes a person a person. You have too much of it. You don't always know what to do with it or you get clogged with it
but it's there. It's there inside of you. I see it all shifting through you, in your eyes, and it's all real. It's
all there, there's just too much for you to deal with sometimes. — K. Sterling