Prodigalidade Quotes & Sayings

The first day I came I remarked to Miss Maria that it looked a little like rain - and Miss Maria laughed. I said the road from the station was very pretty - and Miss Maria laughed. I said there seemed to be a few mosquitoes left yet - and Miss Maria laughed. I said that Prospect Point was as beautiful as ever - and Miss Maria laughed. If I were to say to Miss Maria, 'My father has hanged himself, my mother has taken poison, my brother is in the penitentiary, and I am in the last stages of consumption,' Miss Maria would laugh. She can't help it - she was born so; but is very sad and awful. The — L.M. Montgomery

To be judged of what you were is just unfair as a butterfly being judge while it was a capetillar — Hlovate

Pioneer a totally new field, known as neurobotics. — Robert Greene

Fleury had succeeded (but only with difficulty) in overcoming certain qualms as to whether selling one's life as dearly as possible, or even putting it up for sale at all, was, in fact, the wisest course — J.G. Farrell

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't. — Stephen Baldwin

You cannot fill your life with happiness when you insist on living a stressful life. — Debasish Mridha

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. — Solon

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it. — Banksy

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it's taken a tumble in the dirt. He'd meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn't exist for humankind any more. — Katherine McIntyre

To experience wonder is far more satisfying than merely having faith that wonder exists. — Danuta Pfeiffer

Internet users should be able to choose where to go online and which applications to use. Comcast, say, shouldn't be allowed to block Skype just because it could siphon the communications giant's telephone business. — Marvin Ammori

Bringing a novel to light - revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air - linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time - holding up a glass brimming with chilled, never-tasted liquid, then sipping from it with intoxicated focus - allowing lovers to make a perilous mess of things, fall apart and nakedly come back together again - looking through conjured windows deep into someone else's snow-bound solitude, feeling utterly alone yet being all-connected: this is not writing. It's world-creating.

It's raw, exposed dreaming. It's humbling. At first too personal and intimate to share, it evolves like a child into a life of its own until I have no say in what comes next.

It's what I wake at 4am to say Yes to, the spinning possibility of a new story relentlessly commanding me to write it down so it can whirl in your experience. — Laurie Perez

It seemed as if hell were put into His cup; He seized it, and at one tremendous draught of love, He drank damnation dry. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. — Graham Greene