Mieres Propiedades Quotes & Sayings

The world is an orphanage for grownups — Elizabeth Swados

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election. — Barack Obama

I have begun with the assumption that the Orient is not an inert fact of nature. It is not merely there, just as the Occident itself is not just there either. We must take seriously Vico's great observation that men make their own history, that what they can know is what they have made, and extend it to geography: as both geographical and cultural entities - to say nothing of historical entities - such locales, regions, geographical sectors as "Orient" and "Occident" are man-made. Therefore as much as the West itself, the Orient is an idea that has a history and a tradition of thought, imagery, and vocabulary that have given it reality and presence in and for the West. The two geographical entities thus support and to an extent reflect each other. — Edward W. Said

It's hard to put it in perspective right now. I'm starting to feel a little emotional about what's going to happen Friday night. Getting your number put in the rafters is always something that as a kid ... you dream of seeing happen to you. — Scottie Pippen

We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And the Republicans on my side understand that the majority is in fact up for grabs next year. So there's not a decision made up here that doesn't have that factor coursing through that current. — Chuck Hagel

MTV has always been about redefining itself. — Martha Quinn

It's remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it's expected of them, or they think it's expected of them. — K.J. Parker

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love. — Laurie Lee

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two. — Mark Twain

There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up. — Robert Griffin III

She was breathing shallowly, fast. She stared at some central point on my face, not quite my eyes. "This is how I raised you? To make fuckin' threats about disowning me?"
"No," I said quietly. "This is how I raised me. — Leah Raeder

I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis? — Roz Chast

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through. — Xinran

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back. — Thomas A Kempis