Namoro A Distancia Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws. — Blaise Pascal

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism ... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'. — Hamid Dabashi

A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States - Barack America! — Joe Biden

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly. — Giulio Andreotti

Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him. — Cassandra Clare

You'd think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it's painful. — David Levithan

She enetered the room and the entire crowd stopped, who was she? even in a million moons; you will never understand her, for she is to mysterious to presume and too wise to share her light to everyone. I wanted to love her, but i could tell, i wasnt the only one. — Nikki Rowe

I never thought I'd be with an African, someone so different, from this tiny village."
Sophie — Angela Nicoara

The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent. — Ashwin Sanghi

But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She starts looking at the plain facts of herself. Her body that's become the body that she has and her habits becoming the habits that she's written in stone. Her "haves" being the ones she's got and maybe not getting anymore. — Breena Clarke

But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might have resisted forcibly with more or less effect, might have run "amok" against society; but I preferred that society should run "amok" against me, it being the desperate party. — Henry David Thoreau

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with. — Eli Whitney