Ocosingo Quotes & Sayings

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. — Henry David Thoreau

Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. — Stephen King

No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress - children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed. — Virginia Woolf

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. — B.F. Skinner

And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy. — David Duval

Why are women so fearful? The answer to that question lies at the root of The Cinderella Complex. (...) Many women achieve a certain amount of success in their careers and professions and still remain inwardly insecure. In fact (...), it's remarkable how many women these days retain a hidden core of self doubt while performing on the outside as if they were towers of confidence. (...)
Lack of confidence seems to follow us from childhood (...) No matter how fiercely we try to live like adults - flexible, powerful and free - that girl-child hangs on (...). The effects of such insecurity are widespread, and they result in a disturbing social phenomenon: women in general tend to function well below the level of their native abilities. For reasons that are both cultural and psychological - a system that doesn't really expect a great deal from us, in combination with our own personal fears of standing up and facing the world - women are keeping themselves down. — Colette Dowling

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life. — Oprah Winfrey

The lovely loving and the hateful hates. — Lorenz Hart

I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing. — Sia Furler

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games. — Kevin Durant

I have been a lifelong stutterer, and when I was young, I experienced some very difficult times. — Frank Wolf

A second, less well-known decision was based on his simple calculation "More people, more power." Copying a Soviet system of the same name, Mao created policy preferences for Hero Mothers, women who had many children. At a time when much of the rest of the world, including most of the developing world, saw reductions in population growth, China's average remained at around six children per woman. Over the next two decades, China added the population of South America, even as they'd hampered their agricultural system. — Clay Shirky