Manillas Tejidas Quotes & Sayings

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace. — William C. Bryant

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution
not biological, but cultural evolution ... The Ascent of Man. — Jacob Bronowski

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy. — Jay Maisel

It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui. — George Will

If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God. — Fulton J. Sheen

I'd always been suspicious of unrelenting sunniness, what it must be working so hard to conceal. — Leah Stewart

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else. — Frances Farmer

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of the conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator. Paris is the cradle of artificial births. Rocking here in the cradle each one slips back into his soil: one dreams back to Berlin, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Minsk. Vienna is never more Vienna than in Paris. Everything is raised to apotheosis. The cradle gives up its babes and new ones take their places. You can read here on the walls where Zola lived and Balzac and Dante and Strindberg and everybody who ever was anything. Everyone has lived here some time or other.Nobody dies here ... — Henry Miller

We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life. — Anthony Principi

I don't know why you won't even look me in the eye. I don't understand anything you're doing or saying, and it's killing me, because I already don't undestand a single thing about me or Michael or Becky or my brother or anything on this shitty planet. — Alice Oseman

A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master. — George Herbert

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives. — David Morrell

If I'm working, I'm not D.J.'ing. And if I'm not working, I'm D.J.'ing all the time. — Danny Masterson

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance ... of becoming alcoholics. — Mariska Hargitay

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. — Delphine De Girardin