Paulatinamente Ingles Quotes & Sayings

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. — John Leonard

Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less. — Rosario Ferre

Horse Frightened by a Lion depicts a majestic stallion in a very different situation. Stubbs painted this magnetic masterpiece to illustrate the nature of the sublime, which was one of his era's most popular philosophical concepts,and its relation to a timelessly riveting feeling: fear. The magnificent horse galloping through a vast wilderness encounters the bottom-up stimulus of a crouching predator and responds with a dramatic display of what psychologists mildly call "negative emotion." The equine superstar's arched neck, dilated eyes, and flared nostrils are in fact the very picture of overwhelming dread. The painting's subject matter reflects he philosopher Edmund Burke's widely circulated Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, which asserts that because "terror" is unparalleled in commanding "astonishment," or total, single-pointed,
indeed, rapt
attention, it is "the ruling principle of the sublime. — Winifred Gallagher

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. — Fred Hoyle

Because every time you said my name, it would touch
your lips." His voice lost its hard edge, grew as dark and
smoky as his gaze. "Like a kiss. — Connie Brockway

But all she wanted to do was lie in bed, eat Kraft macaroni and cheese, and hide from the alligators. — Rebecca Wells

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing. — Foxy Brown

It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Meditation isn't just something we do to make ourselves more peaceful and to take some of the stress out of our lives. We do it because it's the only direct experience we can have of knowing God. Because God is that which is indivisible. Everything else in the universe, in the physical world, is divisible. Up and down, good and bad, right and wrong, male and female, and so on. But that which is indivisible in our physical experience is called silence. And when you get into silence, you're coming to know the indivisibleness of your life - and that's conscious contact. — Wayne Dyer

What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because ... there is naught but You. — Neale Donald Walsch

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. — Georg Simmel

From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music. — Jason Molina

She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him. — Donna Leon