Labastida Brothers Quotes & Sayings

Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively perceived texture. — Vladimir Nabokov

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river. — Paulo Coelho

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. — Richard Avedon

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time. — Cecilia Bartoli

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition. — E.W. Howe

You are always dragging me down,' said I to my Body. 'Dragging _you_ down!' replied my Body. 'Well I like that! Who taught me to like tobacco and alcohol? You, of course, with your idiotic adolescent idea of being "grown up". My palate loathed both at first: but you would have your way. Who put an end to all those angry and revengeful thoughts last night? Me, of course, by insisting on going to sleep. Who does his best to keep you from talking too much and eating too much by giving you dry throats and headaches and indigestion? Eh?' 'And what about sex?' said I. 'Yes, what about it?' retorted the Body. 'If you and your wretched imagination would leave me alone I'd give you no trouble. That's Soul all over; you give me orders and then blame me for carrying them out. — C.S. Lewis

The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements. — Tyler Cowen

I'd just single handedly given the love of my life to my best friend - on a silver platter, with a shiny bow attached. — Rachel Van Dyken

This frequently happened. Dantes, cast from solitude into the world, frequently experienced an imperious desire for solitude; and what solitude is more complete, or more poetical, than that of a ship floating in isolation on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity, and under the eye of heaven? — Alexandre Dumas

One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories. — Sara Sheridan

The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today. — Neil Gaiman

I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be. — Hannah Tointon

Liberals had tried convincing Americans to vote for them, but that kept ending badly. Except for Lyndon Johnson's aberrational 1964 landslide, Democrats have not been able to get a majority of white people to vote for them in any presidential election since 1948.13 Their only hope was to bring in new voters. Okay, fine. You won't vote for us, America? We tried this the easy way, but you give us no choice. We're going to overwhelm you with new voters from the Third World. As Democratic consultant Patrick Reddy wrote for the Roper Center in 1998: "The 1965 Immigration Reform Act promoted by President Kennedy, drafted by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and pushed through the Senate by Ted Kennedy has resulted in a wave of immigration from the Third World that should shift the nation in a more liberal direction within a generation. It will go down as the Kennedy family's greatest gift to the Democratic Party."14 — Ann Coulter

We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better. — Maya Angelou

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption. — Desmond Tutu