Marulanda Modelo Quotes & Sayings

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment. — Bill Vaughan

I suspect we have both lived lives that appeared to have serene surfaces and were, for both of us, hollow and impossible to sustain. — Cammie McGovern

My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library. — Rashid Johnson

For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to govern efficiently, or both. They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice. As soon as they have reached their objective, the Middle thrust the Low back into their old position of servitude, and themselves become the High. — George Orwell

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked. — Salman Rushdie

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Your members are looking for variety, not uniformity. — Allen White

We'll miss all of these.
Yes ... we'll miss the days of old, ways of doing things,
when we've been able to do everything, in the future. — Toba Beta

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy. — Bob Gunton

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal. — Thomas Boswell

I think we're suited."
"So you've said." ...
"But like you said in the car, we don't know each other, not really."
"I get it," I said on a rush, because I did get it. I did.
And yet ...
But then he admitted quietly, "I want to know you ... And I want to be known. — Penny Reid

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'. — John McCarthy