Plasencia Alma Fuerte Quotes & Sayings

We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully. — Rudy Giuliani

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave. — Tami Hoag

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. — Scott Westerfeld

I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me. — Jim Henson

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern. — Christian Nestell Bovee

There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It is in the slow, changed life that follows
in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity that counteracts its pain
in the time when day follows day in dull unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine
it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction. — George Eliot

My soul's a burden to me, I've had enough of it. I'm eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don't belong here. — Albert Camus

I hope for your sake you've got something inside that big body of yours! — Dante Alighieri

I would like to suggest to you that you 'grab life by the horns' and do not let life grab you by the horns. You take control of your lives. ... Do not let life control you. ... Take charge. Rise to the divinity that is within you. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me. — Rob Thomas

Proponents of the new and defenders of the old can't merely discuss the transition, because each group has systematic biases that make its overall vision untrustworthy; — Anonymous

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice. — Lewis Carroll