Llevaba Quotes & Sayings

The world's verdict is conclusive. — Saint Augustine

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.' — George W. Bush

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way. — Ariel Levy

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere. — H.G.Wells

the cross should make us all reticent to declare who is cursed by God. — Rodney Reeves

It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it. — Greg Gutfeld

What the ethnographer is in fact faced with - except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data collection - is a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed upon or knotted into one another, which are at once strange, irregular, and inexplicit, and which he must contrive somehow first to grasp and then to render. And this is true at the most down-to-earth, jungle field work levels of his activity; interviewing informants, observing rituals, eliciting kin terms, tracing property lines, censusing households ... writing his journal. Doing ethnography is like trying to read (in the sense of "construct a reading of") a manuscript - foreign, faded, full of ellipses, incoherencies, suspicious emendations, and tendentious commentaries, but written not in conventionalized graphs of sound but in transient examples of shaped behavior. — Clifford Geertz

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense. — Robbie Fowler

I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake. — Darryl Pinckney

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Soren Kierkegaard

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others. — Carolina Kostner

You're either down or you're up. — Shaun White

Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough. — Og Mandino

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised. — Thomas Paine

As long as there are games to play its not over — Alex Ferguson