Lustrosos Quotes & Sayings

The great incestuous wish is to flow on, one with time, to merge the great image of the beyond with the here and now. A fatuous, suicidal wish that is constipated by words and paralyzed by thought. — Henry Miller

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. — Peggy Noonan

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. — Marian Anderson

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it. — Peter Buffett

Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic. — Lisa Kleypas

After all, getting everything you wish for is nearly as dire a curse as having all your dreams come true. — Mark Lawrence

John Stott concludes, "It seems to have been Paul's deliberate policy to move purposefully from one strategic city-centre to the next."5 — Timothy J. Keller

God is not crushing the dreams of parenthood when he deals the card of infertility. God is asking you to crush the idolatry of pregnancy, to be sure. And, he is saying: Dream My dreams, not yours! — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The greater number of the young women, who envied Anna and had long been weary of hearing her called virtuous, rejoiced at the fulfillment of their predictions, and were only waiting for a decisive turn in public opinion to fall upon her with all the weight of their scorn. They were already making ready their handfuls of mud to fling at her when the right moment arrived. — Leo Tolstoy

So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places. Besides, I'm trying to tell you the truth of a woman like me. — Lidia Yuknavitch

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so. — John Vanbrugh

It came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war. — J.M. Coetzee

Man just went past with a cat on his head, — Terry Pratchett

My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game. — Wylie Dufresne