Legislador Nelson Quotes & Sayings

Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect you. She is buried there. And that is why we say that mother is supreme. Is it right that you, Okonkwo, should bring your mother a heavy face and refuse to be comforted? Be careful or you may displease the dead. Your duty is to comfort your wives and children and take them back to your fatherland after seven years. But if you allow sorrow to weigh you down and kill you, they will all die in exile. — Chinua Achebe

Their devotion had never been put to any serious test, and might not have withstood one; their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo. — Ted Chiang

We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings' ... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it. — Mike Pohjola

If I were an athlete I'd be past my prime. If I were a dog I'd be dead. Thirty ... shit. — Jonathan Tropper

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. — Oliver Goldsmith

You don't look like much, but they say you murdered that other chick.
Treating Murder — Gabrielle Black

To be an engineer, and build a marvelous machine, and to see the beauty of its operation is as valid an experience of beauty as a mathematician's absorption in a wondrous theorem. One is not "more" beautiful than the other. To see a space shuttle standing on the launch pad, the vented gases escaping, and witness the thunderous blast-off as it climbs heavenward on a pillar of flame - this is beauty. Yet it is a prime example of applied mathematics. — Calvin C. Clawson

The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act. — Dean Koontz

The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or emotional, will grow and someday return to you in a multiplied fashion. It can be incredibly good or terribly bad, depending on your seed. — Paul J. Meyer

Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt. — Jimmy Buffett

Learned and sociological accepted lines, boundaries, internal perimeters, and partitions diminish the creative space within our minds that's poised and ready. — Ben Abix

Those who betray me only do so once. ~Malkom Slaine (Demon From the Dark) — Kresley Cole