Modernidad Tardia Quotes & Sayings

We are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried. — Michelle Moran

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. — Aristotle.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them. — David Bailey

I wish I had more time to visit schools. — Cornelia Funke

Connie could make her feel slow and bovine; the way she'd suddenly snap her head around and bark a question that would leave Margie fumbling for an answer. — Liane Moriarty

Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confuse
'busy' for 'success'. The truth of the matter is that if you're constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what you're really telling them is that you can't cope with what's on your plate. You're 'failing'. — Oli Anderson

And nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old — Jack Kerouac

If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible. — Penny Lancaster

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything. — Nellie Bly

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything. — Victoria Jackson

My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land. — Mona Eltahawy

But she's my tangent girl and I'll follow her if this is where she wants to go. — Katja Millay