Marista Cascavel Quotes & Sayings

Its authors meant it to be ... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack. — Abraham Lincoln

A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing. — Adrian Peterson

Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white — Frank Zappa

It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances. — Vicki Robin

Many cats are the death of the mouse. — Kaspar Hauser

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature! — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Dialogue cannot exist without humility. — Paulo Freire

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. — John Keats

All pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on. — Mae West

I can fairly say it was the first time in my new life that I really wished I wasn't supernatural: if I had been human the pain would have stopped because I would be dead. II can only describe it as what a person would feel if he somehow, by some terrible miracle, survived the fall off a skyscraper. It was the feeling of every single nerve, bone, sinew, and cell breaking and howling in agony at the same time. A person might have one second of conscious agony before he saw the white light, one brief insight into what the word "disintegrated" really meant. But I had to sit, blinking at her while this happened. I couldn't get up or down or scream or vomit the way a visibly injured person might. I sat there. — Candice Raquel Lee

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA — Guillermo Del Toro

I was as limpid as dammit. — P.G. Wodehouse