Preferencia Quotes & Sayings

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been. — Robert Henri

For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.' — Gabby Douglas

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion. — Murray Rothbard

According to the Archbishop and the Dalai Lama, when we see how little we really need - love and connection - then all the getting and grasping that we thought was so essential to our well-being takes its rightful place and no longer becomes the focus or the obsession of our lives. We — Dalai Lama XIV

Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution. — Aristotle.

As long as I could pitch a little, no one cared that I was getting drunk. — Don Newcombe

The town slowly wakes up around him with its foreign-made cars and its statistics and credit card debt and all its other crap. — Fredrik Backman

A night without stars is a night wasted. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

their them-and-us attitude — No One

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941. — F. Sionil Jose

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day. — Stephen Chbosky

Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed. — Jim Caviezel

Booksellers are tied to publishing - they need conventional publishing models to continue - but for those companies, that's not the case. Amazon is an infrastructure company; Apple sells hardware; Google is really an advertising company. You can't afford as a publisher to have those companies control your route to market. — Nick Harkaway

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart

I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords. — Alberto Manguel