Manuela Velasco Quotes & Sayings

Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier. — Virginia Clinton Kelley

One may denounce corruption in the developing world and the developed world alike, but in the age when billionaires stalk a globe on which 50 percent of its people live on less than two dollars a day, can one really be surprised that customs officers, policemen, judges, politicians, and bureaucrats are often tempted? — Misha Glenny

Keep your right up or there'll be nothing left of you." - 100 Bullets

I love this quote because it has double meaning. — Brian Azzarello

I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling. — Emily Giffin

First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox. — John K. Brown

Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead ... — Marguerite Yourcenar

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. — William Makepeace Thackeray

a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her — Leo Tolstoy

Debt certainly isn't always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates. — Jean Chatzky

Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge