Maleta In English Quotes & Sayings

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. — Frank Popoff

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there — Anton Chekhov

There is no God any more divine than Yourself. — Walt Whitman

Lead me into all misfortune. Only by that path can I transform the negative into the positive. — Douglas Preston

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer. — Isabel Allende

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin ... by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin — John Wesley

You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate. — Don Paterson

The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived them in order to escape from themselves. In their widest ramifications 'the Middle Ages' thus constitute one of the most prevalent cultural myths of the modern world. — Brian Stock

Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money. — Mitchell Symons

Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes. — Justin Somper

Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing
Life's inequalities, and woe, and care,
The burdens laid upon our mortal being
Seem heavier than the human heart can bear. — Phoebe Cary

I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS. — J. B. Smoove