Paraguayan People Quotes & Sayings

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island. — Sherwood Schwartz

Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in every class I was in, and then I went to Duke and suddenly I was the dumbest kid in every class. Everybody there is up to something. — Mike Posner

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Sincerity is all that counts -- it's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right. — Tom Driberg

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. — Benjamin Disraeli

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ... — David Lindsay-Abaire

My last chance had vanished into itself like a snail coiling up into his shell.
Insidiously I had lost my grip, and now this was it. I thought all this without much emotion. I really didn't care anymore. I couldn't hang on anymore. I didn't have the guts to kill myself, but I didn't want it to continue. I walked a couple of blocks, empty, listless, and wished I could cry.
... The diabolic hope, the purposeful pulsing of blood, the flight into coherence allowed for some rationalizing an afterlife. A new theology was evolving, one that had a faith-in-death clause. It was evolved when I kicked a dead waterbug on the pavement. It was dried out, hollowed, emptied, like some kind of shell. Maybe, I thought, its body is a shell, maybe all bodies are shells. We hatch and die. Our spirit or something like that is the yoke: it lives the real life, the true life.
It wasn't comforting. — Arthur Nersesian

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about. — Johnny Mercer

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world. — Marc Benioff

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes. — Katha Pollitt