One Hundred Years Of Solitude Ursula Quotes & Sayings

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. — Franz Grillparzer

I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good days, bad days, loneliness, happiness, anger, anxiety, pressure, relationships ... EVERYTHING. — Ricki-Lee Coulter

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble ... to give way to hope, fear and greed. — Benjamin Graham

Feminism is comprised of values that are important to you as a woman, not ideals arrived at by forced consensus to which you should adjust your own life. — Daisy Hernandez

Truman's version was: "The only new thing in the world is the history we have not learned." And, in the House — Anonymous

Touch had always saved them in the past. No matter the anger or hurt, no matter the depth of the aloneness, a touch, even a light and passing touch, reminded them of their long togetherness. A palm on a neck: it all flooded back. A head leaned upon a shoulder: the chemicals surged, the memory of love. At times, it was almost impossible to cross the distance between their bodies, to reach out. At times, it was impossible. Each new the feeling so well, in the silence of a darkened bedroom, looking at the same ceiling: If I could open my fingers, my heart's fingers could open. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I am a nobody but I work for everybody. — Amit Abraham

And yet most people would be lost without the idea that life increases in value the more it resembles our own. — Frank Schatzing

There are so many reasons, but a big reason is that the literary world is simply too white. When there are more professors of color being employed by these institutions maybe there will be some change in the student populations. — Porochista Khakpour

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better. — Theodore Roosevelt

That gun of yours tickles me where I don't like to be tickled," she said. — Jonathan Latimer

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture. — James Patterson

All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last. — Alexander McCall Smith