Padezco Quotes & Sayings

There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them. — Shimon Peres

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Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes. — Ezra Pound

My wife has to be the worst cook. I've got the only dog who begs for alka-seltzer. — Rodney Dangerfield

The world is open for play, [that] everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way. — Robin Williams

I turn back to the lake, stare at the ice slowly moving on the surface of the water. Pieces of the solid fall into the liquid, but it's all just water no matter what its form. — Carrie Jones

O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us! A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr ... ! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately! — Albert Camus

The city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of its death came after. — Ray Bradbury

Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer. It would be hard to name any figure in history who has achieved more lasting fame with less competence. He spent large parts of eight years bouncing around Caribbean islands and coastal South America convinced that he was in the heart of the Orient and that Japan and China were at the edge of every sunset. He never worked out that Cuba is an island and never once set foot on, or even suspected the existence of, the landmass to the north that everyone thinks he discovered: the United States. — Bill Bryson

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar. — Robert Breault