Limpiaran Quotes & Sayings

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most. — Teju Cole

She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her. — Matthew Thomas

A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife. — Matsuo Basho

You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.' — Donny Osmond

O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock! — William Shakespeare

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud - that an attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality, where you become a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions, while their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies you have to dread and flee - that you do not care to live as a dependent, least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others, or as a fool whose source of values is the fools he succeeds in fooling - that honesty is not a social duty, not a sacrifice for the sake of others, but the most profoundly selfish virtue man can practice: his refusal to sacrifice the reality of his own existence to the deluded consciousness of others — Ayn Rand

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit. — Barbara W. Tuchman

For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians have only been counted in the census since the 1967 Referendum. Even so, State protection and welfare laws continued to control the lives of Indigenous Australians and denied them equal rights, well into the 1970's. — Jackie Huggins

Success comes through small daily wins. — Todd Stocker

If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling
as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse. — Jane Yolen

What has having a baby got to do with getting a job at an art gallery? You're always thinking in terms of either/or. The thing is wholeness. — Margaret Atwood

Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, "Practice makes perfect." In most cases, practice merely confirms us in our errors, and the longer we do something the wrong way - that is, without enlightenment and instruction- the more fixed we become in our folly. — Sydney J. Harris