Oeste Spain Quotes & Sayings

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy. — Peter Kreeft

Somehow the habit of eating had never appeared so ridiculous to me, and I rubbed my eyes. Presently I realized that my point of view came from having completely lost the desire to live. — Yukio Mishima

Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will. — Nancy Gibbs

More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation. — Martin Jacques

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal. — A.C. Grayling

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung. — William Jones

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt. — Elisabeth Badinter