Invadir Quotes & Sayings

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time? — Henry David Thoreau

The men came to mind as mostly idle between nights of running wild or time in the pen, cooking moon and gathering around the spout, with ears chewed, fingers chopped, arms shot away, and no apologies grunted ever. The women came to mind bigger, closer, with their lonely eyes and homely yellow teeth, mouths clamped against smiles, working in the hot fields from can to can't, hands tattered rough as dry cobs, lips cracked all winter, a white dress for marrying, a black dress for burying, and Ree nodded yup. Yup. — Daniel Woodrell

What the Enlightenment rejected in the South Sea islands was what it perceived as a stupor, the docile submission to whatever bit of the given is coming your way. And what's coming your way is unlikely to be a breeze or a cow or a coconut, but a new kind of screen you can zap or click to create the illusion that life isn't passing you by. — Susan Neiman

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes. — Danielle Steel

Sentinel meeting tonight," Ria told her. "At Lucas's place."
"Time?"
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"Seven. Sascha's doing dinner."
"God save us all." Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back. — Nalini Singh

To encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen ... — Richard Ford

Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ. — Oswald Chambers

Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement. — Nhat Hanh

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk. — Nick Faldo

There are a lot of guys who are respected but not liked. — Ron Santo

A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next. — Mignon McLaughlin