Lucilio Manjate Quotes & Sayings

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205. — Joseph McCarthy

The higher you rise, the greater your need for advice. — Patrick W. Carr

Tireless, tied, as a moon-bound sea Moves — Sylvia Plath

While Sex without love is shallow, it's so profoundly uncomplicated — Josh Stern

The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff. — Jane Hirshfield

If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it bring must be borne. And at this level of experience one's bitterness begins to be palatable, and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry. — James Baldwin

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring. — Homer

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits. — Marcus Aurelius

I have considered every logical alternative." Izin's voice was its usual synthesized calmness, but I sensed his helplessness. "Then find an illogical alternative!" "Illogical thinking?" "Yes!" Izin's bulbous eyes blinked slowly. "I will try to think more like you, Captain." "That's the spirit!" I patted Izin's shoulder encouragingly. "You've got eighteen hours. — Stephen Renneberg

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of intelligence, training, or connection with a tradition who are described as working by instinct or intuition. — Joanna Russ

That a single kiss from a boy who knew how to walk through dreams, who himself now seemed to be a dream, hadn't irrevocably altered her. — Kelly Creagh

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference. — Victor Hugo

The other's body was divided: on one side, the body proper
skin, eyes
tender, warm; and on the other side, the voice
abrupt, reserved, subject to fits of remoteness, a voice which did not give what the body gave. Or further: on one side, the soft, warm, downy. adorable body. and on the other, the ringing, well-formed. worldly voice
always the voice. — Roland Barthes

A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one's own teeth. All of them, self-extracted. — Laini Taylor