Mermelada De Mora Quotes & Sayings

Faith is ignoring facts and believing in what we wish were facts — Bangambiki Habyarimana

At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess. — Bertrand Russell

The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children may perhaps have been led to imagine on the first evening, but also the elephant and the country of Denmark, beside many other things. Yes, everyday brought its new animal and its new country, its new kings and its new gods, its quota of those tough little figures which seem to have no significance, but are nevertheless endowed with a life and a value of their own, and may be added together or subtracted from one another at will. And finally poetry, which is grater than any country ; poetry with its bright palaces. — Halldor Laxness

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights. — Barbara Rosenblat

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. — Jack Kerouac

Altered is Zarathustra; a child hath Zarathustra become; an awakened one is Zarathustra: what wilt thou do in the land of the sleepers? — Friedrich Nietzsche