Jurisdiccion Voluntaria Quotes & Sayings

It was not the house of someone who liked books. It did not have a well-stocked library. It was not even stuffed with books. Thomas could not see any part of the house that was not mostly book. Books rose from the floor to the ceiling in unruly, tottering towers. Books held up tables and chairs - and sat in the chairs, at the tables, as though quite ready for supper to be served, so long as supper was more books. They sprawled over the dining table like a feast of many colors. Books climbed the stairs, ran up and down the hallways, curled up before the fireplace, were wedged into the cabinets beside cups and saucers, held open doors and locked them shut. They left no room on the sofa to sit, nor in the kitchen to stand, nor on the floor to lie down. Books had already taken every territory and occupied it. — Catherynne M Valente

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed. — William Shakespeare

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one. — Chris Benz

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors. — Eric Braeden

I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million. — Jil Sander

this voice is louder than any other though it does not speak — Nejoud Al-Yagout

crop. Gains from trade likewise accrue to those with the power to exclude. Conflict over those powers also takes legal form. When the legal entitlements people assert are confirmed in practice, the powers and vulnerabilities of people in struggle are defined. As conflict continues, law consolidates gains and losses, solidifying relations between winners and losers. Over time, patterns emerge and inequalities can be reproduced or deepened. I illuminate that process borrowing Gunnar Myrdal's analytic framework for understanding dualist dynamics between centers and peripheries. — David Kennedy Kennedy