Levantando Manos Quotes & Sayings

In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name. — Victor Hugo

I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far. — Michael Chabon

Service is not something you do. It is something you are. — Stella Payton

He hugs her to him. When Charlie was little he did this all the time, but as she grows older it happens less. Her father is warm, almost hot, his heartbeat like someone banging on a heavy door. — Jennifer Egan

What else is there besides puran (input; influx; charge; cause) and galan (out put; discharge; effect)? — Dada Bhagwan

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood - the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see. — Maurice Sendak

The religious feeling engendered by experiencing the logical comprehensibility of profound interrelations is of a somewhat different sort from the feeling that one usually calls religious. It is more a feeling of awe at the scheme that is manifest in the material universe. It does not lead us to take the step of fashioning a god-like being in our own image - a personage who makes demands of us and who takes an interest in us as individuals. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being. — Rebecca Goldstein

There was nothing meek about her. She supposed that God loved her, but in a personal way; she took it for granted that He admired her. — Robert Nathan

Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity. — Charles Evans Hughes