Manzanilla Quotes & Sayings

Know yourself to improve yourself. — Auguste Comte

173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one," wrote Jefferson in 1785 in his Notes on the State of Virginia. "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."31 — Gordon S. Wood

The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another — Leo Tolstoy

People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind. — James Baldwin

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking. — Guy Ritchie

He would never know know her. Such intimacy but no communication, because words - even if she could speak or write them - could never explain her world to him. — Mary Balogh

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion . — Terry Bradshaw

The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances on this planet. What the world needs today is a convergence of the different religions in the search for and definition of the cosmic or divine laws which ought to regulate our behavior on this planet. — Robert Muller

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. — David Korten

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others. — Pema Chodron