Luis Freitas Lobo Quotes & Sayings

Most people give little enough real thought to their own mortality. Oh yes, they gabble on about heaven and the bosom of Abraham, but really, they are weary of life almost from the time they're born, and are only waiting for it all to end. They live their days quietly, obscurely, and underneath their daily toils, they long for oblivion. — Ari Berk

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist. — Beau Willimon

Parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences. — Stacy Schiff

I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene. — Ann Leckie

Memory, perhaps, should have no physical shape. — Dave Eggers

We can never tell what is in store for us. — Harry S. Truman

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is. — Frederic Dan Huntington

When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die. — Blaise Pascal

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it. — Mary Ritter Beard

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked.
Because you will not tolerate anything else."
Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.
- Anita to Jean-Claude — Laurell K. Hamilton

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it. — William Penn

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract. — Katharine Hepburn

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going. — Condoleezza Rice

And it suggests, says Jadzia Jagiellowicz, the lead scientist at Stony Brook, that sensitive types think in an unusually complex fashion. It may also help explain why they're so bored by small talk. "If you're thinking in more complicated ways," she told me, "then talking about the weather or where you went for the holidays is not quite as interesting as talking about values or morality. — Susan Cain