Marquesado De Arguelles Quotes & Sayings

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed. — Tony Benn

By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins. — Ingrid Newkirk

If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy. — Deepak Chopra

Neither the heart cut by a sliver of glass in a wasteland of thorns, nor the atrocious waters seen in the corners of certain houses, waters like eyelids and eyes, could hold your waist in my hands when my heart lifts its oak trees toward your unbreakable thread of snow. Night sugar, spirit of crowns, redeemed human blood, your kisses banish me, and a surge of water with remnants of the sea strikes the silences that wait for you surrounding the worn-out chairs, wearing doors away. — Pablo Neruda

What was one more debit of mortification when my balance sheet was already in the red — Penny Reid

Afghans think the burqa is a permanent part of culture. But, if you bring it to Europe, how would people react? Afghanistan doesn't want to change its culture, but it can change, all the time. So why are Afghans giving so much value to it? The burqa is not natural. It's not human nature. — Malina Suliman

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. — Joseph Addison

when I was about eleven, I went to stay with Grans in Montauk for four weeks while August was having his big jaw surgery. — R.J. Palacio

He'd follow her into hell to claim what was due to him.
Unfortunately, he suspected she was headed for heaven, which was barred to him. — Lorraine Heath

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. — Leo Tolstoy

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette. — Judith Martin

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws. — Martin Luther

You say things that make my eyes close and I find that marvelous. — Edith Piaf

You are stranded in a culture where you can't trust many, you don't fully understand the language, and you can't read the signs - and at the same time you try not to let on that you can't do those things. — Kim De Blecourt