Ladrona Club Quotes & Sayings

Choose a book," she said. "Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer. — Peter V. Brett

Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved. — Thomas Merton

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that. — Paulo Coelho

What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage." (137) — Jessica Stern

It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions. Many times, for instance, I've heard people say, "A free market in education is a bad idea because some child somewhere might fall through the cracks," even though in today's government school, millions of children are falling through the cracks every day. — Lawrence W. Reed

I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows. — Geraldine Chaplin

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!' — Robert Carlyle

I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary. — Radka Donnell

There's no shortage of great young activists. — Gloria Steinem

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline. — Harvey MacKay

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse. — Groucho Marx