Madesol Quotes & Sayings

Let me take you,
daughter of the fields,
to the lovers' vineyard.
The wine we press will quench the fires of longing.

You need not fear, my love,
for never have the stars on high
told what they know.
Night's thick mists swirl in these vineyards;
they will veil our secrets. — Kahlil Gibran

I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived of their beer. — Woodrow Wilson

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't. — Terry Pratchett

If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money. — Bill Lipschutz

Think of yourself as a detective looking for clues to a book's general theme or idea, alert for anything that will make it clearer. — Mortimer J. Adler

My eyes drift down the cliffs that rise abruptly from the beach and to the fishing boats resting by the shore. There is a comforting rhythm to the waves. They rise and swell, demanding full attention, only to subside to a faint whisper. I watch the interplay of sand and water in a cavernous outlet beneath the bluff. (p.97) — Angella M. Nazarian

You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again. — Oprah Winfrey

The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for sure, no one at school knows it's your birthday anymore. It's not like when you're little and your mom brings cupcakes for the whole class. But even though no one knows, you walk around like it's supposed to be a national holiday. You walk around thinking that people are supposed to be nice to you, like maybe on your birthday you're ten times more breakable than on any other day. Well, it doesn't work that way. It just doesn't. — A.M. Homes

You know what you do? You know how rain takes the colour out of everything? That's what you do to the English language. You blur it every time you open your mouth. — John Fowles

It's important that the satisfaction of our giving be our giving. — Kelly Corbet

You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness. — Steve Pavlina

Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves on their computers. But that doesn't mean they are special. — Garry Kasparov

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball. — Alex Gibney

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant. — Anthony Fauci

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship. — Bennett Cerf