Martorell Quotes & Sayings

Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin — Ban Ki-moon

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken. — G.I. Gurdjieff

At the root of everything lay the passionate
desire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature. — James H. Billington

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued — Julie Orringer

When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified. — John Piper

You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his — Douglas MacArthur

I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems. — Unknown

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. — D.H. Lawrence

Now I help you find her." He stood up from behind the table, smoothed down his tie. "I sit for too long. My leg goes to bed."
"To sleep?"
"Thank you, small person. At rare time, I am making mistake in English-language speaking, so thanks for accurate fixation. Now we find Sarah. You follow. Stay near. There are trivial beings everywhere. — Tom Rachman

I'd like it if you could love me for a little while at least. — Paula McLain

Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in. — Bilal Tanweer

It requires writers to do two things that by their metabolism are impossible. They must relax, and they must have confidence. — William Zinsser

If it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness. — James Joyce

Now we see you, you nasty little creature! We will eat you and leave your bones and skin hanging on a tree. Ugh! he's got a sting has he? Well, we'll get him all the same, and then we'll hang him head downwards for a day or two." While — J.R.R. Tolkien

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy. — G.K. Chesterton