Orlandito Rosario Maldonado Quotes & Sayings

We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his involution of feelings, desires and capacities; and we must resemble, in quickness of feeling, instinctive sympathy, and warm benevolence, the lovely daughter of Huntley, before we can hope to judge rightly of the good and virtuous of our fellow-creatures. — Mary Shelley

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living. — Karl Marx

The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied- indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the breath of god, the water of life ... labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call TRANSFORMATION. — Deepak Chopra

I couldn't always remember his face, so my visual for him became my feet, bare and pale and pressed against the wall as we talked for hours. — Lena Dunham

what was rational about a midlife crisis? Weren't they always a little absurd? They were beginning the next phase of their lives together. She was not afraid of it. Let it come, she thought. He'll be in good hands. — Matthew Thomas

It was another example of a phenomenon I call "the talking dog syndrome." Some people are still amazed that any woman (this includes Governors' wives, corporate CEOs, sports stars and rock singers) can hold her own under pressure and be articulate and knowledgeable. The dog can talk! — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent? — Hunter S. Thompson

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. — Gustave Flaubert

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. — Robert Duvall

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had never occurred before. That's magic. — Richard Dawson

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. — Phillips Brooks

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings. — Christina Aguilera

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time. — R. Kelly

How many houses are burned down in the United States every year? What would be the easiest way to increase that number by a significant amount (say, at least 15%)? — Randall Munroe