Origenes Secretos Quotes & Sayings

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance
the one value that is indispensable in creating community. — Barbara Jordan

The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them. — Laozi

Dad, Dad, Dad. What's wrong?" Alfred looked up at his son and into his eyes. He opened his mouth, but the only word he could produce was "I - " I - I have made mistakes - I am alone - I am wet - I want to die - I am sorry - I did my best - I love my children - I need your help - I want to die - "I can't be here," he said. — Jonathan Franzen

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. — Calvin Trillin

She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Because it was never just that the door was unlocked, it was that the door was unlocked, and men were inside, and they were waiting to rape and kill her. — Gillian Flynn

People should go to their local grocery store or farmers' market and buy ugly, misshapen foods, then cook with them and document their dishes. And share not only the funny-looking foods, but the fantastic results. — Dana Cowin

Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you. — Sylvia Brownrigg

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed. — Sirio Maccioni

She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog. — Per Petterson

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished. — George Orwell

Schopenhauer once said: the life of one dog may be worth more than the lives of many human beings. — Luis E. Navia

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. — Joshua Lederberg

Leaving the vehicle, its slaghtered passengers, and another small piece of my humanity behind. — Julie Kagawa