Paradoxos Quotes & Sayings

Now what happens?" asked the man in black.
"We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."
"You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it? — William Goldman

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. — Walter Scott

Life was meant to be lived. That was God's ultimate plan for everyone: live life and give thanks to the Lord. Too many Englische people sacrificed their health - physical, psychological, and spiritual - to chase after material things. But at the end of the day, whatever had been acquired seemed insignificant in light of their desires for more. The — Sarah Price

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens. — Joseph Bologna

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process. — Eyvind Kang

There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed. — Enrique Pena Nieto

On June 30th, 1983, I wrote in my diary, "Why couldn't I write more when I was little? I would've known what my life was like to me then. — Rebecca Rose Orton

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing ... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas ... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new. — G.K. Chesterton

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. — Mo Ibrahim

Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet. — Craig Kilborn

For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake? — Kabir

I'm really into pandas right now. They're really scratching an itch for me. They're so goddamn cute. — Nick Kroll

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys. — Tori Amos

But black students were left on their own. — Isabel Wilkerson