Pataleta In English Quotes & Sayings

Ever since it formed, the Tea Party has struck me as a kind of weird generational echo, forty years on, of the young leftists of the late 1960s. The 1960s leftists, like the Tea Party now, had unrealistic goals and were hostile to compromise. Both saw themselves as cultural forces up against a shadowy establishment. Both treated politics as street theater and had a curious fondness for using violent rhetoric and making apocalyptic pronouncements. Generationally speaking, the 1960s Left and the Right of today are the same group... p. 232 — Mike Lofgren

Music Should Be Your Escape — Missy Elliott

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends. — Marian Hooper Adams

I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone — Sue Whitaker

If anything like this is true, then we would be denied even our self-congratulatory distinction of being the only animal that makes self-congratulatory distinctions. — Carl Sagan

She had that look a child has only a few times in its life, when the child has bettered her betters. The expression isn't smug, though adults often take it for smugness. It's something else. Maybe relief at having confirmed through personal experience the long-held suspicion of our species, that the enchanted world of childhood is merely a mask for something else, a more subtle and paradoxical magic.
- p. 157 — Gregory Maguire

I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills. — Tawni O'Dell

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. — David Eddings

Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint ... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case. — Etel Adnan

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive. — Chali 2na

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily. — Roma Downey