Palpitantes Quotes & Sayings

What we describe as "our life" is not the sum total of what has passed through our hands but what has passed through our minds. Our life isn't only a collection of people and places, it is a continuum of the ever-changing feelings they engender. It isn't only what you've touched, it's what you've felt of what you touched. — Stephen Levine

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Who are you when no one is watching? — Anonymous

2) Asking For The Order Doesn't Motivate People To Buy. What motivates people to buy is when they get that you "get" them - that you understand their world, and have shown how your product/service will impact their company in ways important to them. In most cases, the salesperson that wins the deal isn't the one with the best product or lowest price, but the one who best articulates the customer's point of view. — Peter Bowerman

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules. — Louis MacNeice

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. — Ruth Rendell

His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. "Love me, Elizabeth."
Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. "I do. — Judith McNaught

Imagine if we treated offensive words like we treat chemical pollution. I'd love to see a 'Talk Green' campaign sweeping the world — Sahar El-Nadi

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. — Joyce Carol Oates

And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever. — Walter Savage Landor

You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear. — Anne Carson

I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context. — Christian Campbell

Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid. — B.C. Forbes