Obreras English Quotes & Sayings

The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion. Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum. — Ambrose Bierce

Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you're wasting your time in appeasing the dead. — Aeschylus

She loves being an American, but being an American overseas is quite a different thing. Edie was able to see herself, and her country, through other people's eyes - through the eyes of aid workers from Europe and Asia, through the eyes of the people they were trying to help. She knows that Americans are often viewed as arrogant and frivolous, clueless about their own country, and she hates that this is true. — Darien Gee

As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world. — Kari Matchett

I recollected that [the rattlesnake's] eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her. — Benjamin Franklin

Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends. — Sunday Adelaja

After the wada is complete, we shall use it ourselves. We shall live, move and play there, embrace each other and be happy. — Jaya Wahi

They say that there are a prodigious number of birds hereabouts this year, so that perhaps I may kill a few. — Jane Austen

He had the look of a well-fucked man, one who was sated and yet anticipating further pleasures ahead. — Sylvia Day

The greatest thing about dreams is they don't expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new. — Casi McLean

Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong. — Abbi Glines

I design for a woman who is on the go. Women are busier than ever, and I wanted to design a collection that can go from day to night and be fashionable. Sometimes I wear three outfits in one day. — Giuliana Rancic