Locsin Pavilion Quotes & Sayings

They were smoking cigarettes in the deliberate self-conscious way of smoking teenagers: — John Darnielle

Posterity is always just. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand. — Eddie Van Halen

When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appellation: the Turning Angel. — Greg Iles

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity. — Nicolaus Copernicus

But the paradox of pain is that it is only universal in retrospect. In the present, it is fiercely personal. — Glennon Doyle Melton

When you have a toothache, you call your dentist and ask for an emergency appointment to relieve your pain. You know deeply at that point that not having a toothache is happiness. Yet later, when you don't have a toothache, you forget and do not treasure your non-toothache. — Thich Nhat Hanh

conscious only of his movement upward, the last of Lee Scoresby passed through the heavy clouds and came out under the brilliant stars, where the atoms of his beloved daemons, Hester, were waiting for him. — Philip Pullman

I don't think we've explained it very well, Prudencia, said Hortensia. It's not the husband who has to be the source of harmony. It's not in him that you have to seek harmony. No, it's in the marriage, in the combination of the two of you, that you've got to look for it. — Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life. — Vera Brittain

The travails of being an employee include not only uncertainty about the duration of one's employment, but also the humiliation of many working practices and dynamics. With most businesses shaped like pyramids, in which a wide base of employees gives way to a narrow tip of managers, the question of who will be rewarded - and who left behind - typically develops into one of the most oppressive of the workplace, and one which, like all anxieties, feeds off uncertainty. Because achievement in most fields is difficult to monitor reliably, the path to promotion or its oppositie can acquire an apparently haphazard connection to results. The succesful alpinist of organizational pyramids may not be the best at their jobs, but those who have best mastered a range of dark political arts in which civilized life does not usually offer instruction. — Alain De Botton

Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once. — Ken Kesey

I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects. — Kim Basinger

Do me a favor," he says, "and don't call me that. — Veronica Roth