Palancas De Primer Quotes & Sayings

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. — Carrie Fisher

We do not find among the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and the Orientals the same value placed on love because we do not find there the same positive value placed on suffering. Suffering was not the hallmark of seriousness; rather, seriousness was measured by one's ability to evade or transcend the penalty of suffering, by one's ability to achieve tranquillity and equilibrium. In contrast, the sensibility we have inherited identifies spirituality and seriousness with turbulence, suffering, passion. For two thousand years, among Christians and Jews, it has been spiritually fashionable to be in pain. Thus it is not love which we overvalue, but suffering - more precisely, the spiritual merits and benefits of suffering. — Susan Sontag

In 'Three Cups of Tea' I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve. — Greg Mortenson

Power is the flower of organization. — A. Philip Randolph

The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole. — Werner Heisenberg

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes — Seth Godin

In the blank where it said "Name of act," I had scrawled, "Actually, I'm not really sure — Rachel Renee Russell

Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices. — Asa Don Brown