Oprima Aqui Quotes & Sayings

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present. — Allan Lokos

If you have the grace to hug someone, never miss this sacred moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade. — Leo Durocher

And somehow Hallie thrived anyway--the blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears radiant bushels of plums while the trees around it merely go on living. In Grace, in the old days, when people found one of those in their orchard they called it the semilla besada--the seed that got kissed. Sometimes you'd run across one that people had come to, and returned to, in hopes of a blessing. The branches would be festooned like a Christmas tree of family tokens: a baby sock, a pair of broken reading glasses, the window envelope of a pension check. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives. — Brandon Stanton

With 'Street Fight,' it took an urban mayoral election and found lots of complexity in there. The same with 'Racing Dreams.' I wanted to show complexity within this world that most documentary people don't know anything about. — Marshall Curry

The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country. — Douglas MacArthur

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal

Barbara stumbled, and, for a brief second, took my arm. It was then, perhaps, that a force was released, no less powerful for its action proving somewhat delayed; for emotions of that kind are not always immediately grasped. — Anthony Powell

How deceptively light they are, the truly decisive steps we take in life. — John Banville

If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Trying to find some sense and order in this mess may be as futile as trying to ... reconstruct the economy of Iowa from a bowl of popcorn. [On searching for evidence of the Big Bang.] — Barbara Ehrenreich

The personal opinions of the editors have no kind of weight in the eyes of the public: the only use of a journal is, that it imparts the knowledge of certain facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views. — Alexis De Tocqueville

A rib ... loaves and fish ... some spit ... God can do a lot with a little. — Mark Hart

Tell me, if you teach someone the alphabet, how can you stop him from reading? When one has tasted the elixir of love, how can she not thirst for it? Once you have seen yourself through your beloved's eyes, you're not the same person any longer. I was blind all this time, and now that my eyes are open, i'm afraid of light. But i don't want to live like a mole. Not anymore. — Elif Shafak

The way he loved was almost like a vise, a weight; at times she felt it verged on codependence--that his identity, his value system, all of it very much hinged on her. — Nickolas Butler