Instrucciones Para Quotes & Sayings

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Aren't we lucky to be us? — Alan Alda

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules. — Arianna Huffington

At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view. — Robert Dallek

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to. — Hayley Atwell

She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering. — Somaly Mam

Thea began to wonder whether people could not utterly lose the power to work, as they can lose their voice or their memory. She had always been a little drudge, hurrying from one task to another - as if it mattered! And now her power to think seemed converted into a power of sustained sensation. She could become a mere receptacle for heat, or become a color, like the bright lizards that darted about on the hot stones outside her door; or she could become a continuous repetition of sound, like the cicadas. — Willa Cather

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, — Benjamin Franklin

If I were someone else, I'd go along with you all.
But since I'm what I am, lay off!
Go to hell without me,
Or let me go there by myself!
Why do we have to go together? — Fernando Pessoa

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. — George Eliot

Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the only way to do it. Therefore, I say, let's try to get it done. And everybody says, 'difficult, difficult,' and nobody lifts a finger to try. And the only real difficulty is that everybody for one reason or another says that it's difficult. It's against human nature. Granted! Every decent thing is. It's socialism. Who cares? — H.G.Wells

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. — Arthur Erickson

Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts. — Shoshin Nagamine