Mayolo Banuelos Quotes & Sayings

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Pretty much everything exploded. — Mark Lawrence

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. — Frank Wedekind

All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirling ribbons of light, red, green, violet, were festooned about the doorways of drugstores and restaurants
and the famous electric signs of Broadway had come to life with glittering fish, dancing figures, and leaping fountains, all flashing like fire. Everything was beautiful. Up in the deepening sky above the city the first stars appeared white and rare as diamonds. — Elizabeth Enright

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present. — Madeleine L'Engle

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. — John B. S. Haldane

The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.' — Chris Isaak

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East. — Najib Razak

Sufis are keys to open up hearts. — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. — Billy Collins

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. — John Milton

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. — William C. Bryant

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation. — Alfred North Whitehead