Joseval Peixoto Quotes & Sayings

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. — Eric Bell

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things. — Paul Gilding

The Americans are the nature of the future," she would announce in her hearty voice. "Here's to 'em. God bless their gadgets, great and small, God bless Frigidaire, Tampax and Coca-Cola. Yes, even Coca-Cola,darling." (It was generally conceded that Coca-Cola's advertising was ruining the picturesqueness of Morocco.) — Paul Bowles

The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master. — Thomas Huxley

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love. — Samuel Beckett

All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. — Charlotte Bronte

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best. — George Eliot

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. — Ansel Adams

The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own ... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position. — Albert Schweitzer

Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that. — Marian Seldes

Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heat. — Cassandra Clare

Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves. — Joss Whedon