Maysabel Aponte Rivera Quotes & Sayings

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do. — Robert Gibbs

I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults. — Francoise Mouly

A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us. — Willie D

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Actors and directors have written about it, psychologists, philosophers, social scientists, and even biologists have pondered it. What is acting, and how is it done? How does someone become someone else? Can someone become someone else? How much of what an actor does is due to that mysterious quality we call talent? — Richard Brestoff

Please don't. Don't oversimplify everything you've been through like that. You had to feel those awful feelings. You had to face them down
confront your bitterness and pessimism
and decide that you didn't want to be that way anymore. — Rainbow Rowell

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion. — Thomas Malthus

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. — Truman Capote

A sense of an impending disaster is a warning that if acted upon can be averted. This sense of the future, which is part of one's intuitive faculty, acts not only as a mechanism for self-preservation, which is stronger in most women than in most men as it happens, but also acts as a guiding mechanism. — Laith Doory

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in. — Hank Azaria

Do not think that what is beyond your wisdom to grasp, is impossible to accomplish. — J. Leigh Bralick

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood. — Joseph Campbell

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize. — Milan Kundera

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth. — Alan Alda

The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm. — Ronald Reagan