Mariangeles Toledano Quotes & Sayings

It never occurs to any of these balloons that someone smoking on school premises isn't rebelling against the system, we're not even thinking about the system, we just want a fag. It's a survival technique, a lot of teachers smoke but no one's barging in the staff room judging their lives, their futures, putting them on detention. — Lisa O'Donnell

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K. — James Dyson

[W]e have more than two options ... a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power ... [O]ur problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others. — John Ralston Saul

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand. — Alexandra Bracken

To be psychologically healthy, we have to believe that what we do has some effect on what happens to us. Even if the perception of control is delusional, it usually leads to more productive action than believing that what we do makes no difference. — Albert J. Bernstein

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic. — William Drummond

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. — Robert Wyatt

And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together. — Chris Pavone

One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments. — Aldous Huxley

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

NOTHING goes exactly as planned. Make your OWN destiny — Tate Hallaway

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment ... — Sara Suleri

No matter how good a story is, there is more at stake in the telling. — Rabih Alameddine

Sometimes you have to know when to let hope go. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. — Laura Ingalls Wilder