Progresa Mexico Quotes & Sayings

I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look like and this is who I am,' or be the person who is obsessed with diet and exercise and keeping toned. What feels more realistic to me is that some days I wake up and think I love how I look. On other days I say, 'If I had real self-control, I would be 10 pounds lighter.' That contradiction is, to me, what being a girl actually feels like. — Lena Dunham

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it. — Libba Bray

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. — George Etherege

The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success. — Pearl Zhu

But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation. — J.L. Austin

This scene was little more than a somewhat hollow ceremonial gesture. The real work of the conference had already begun, by a far smaller, more elite, and far less disparate set of individuals. All were white Westerners of elite backgrounds with more congruent temperaments and, as it turned out, goals. The first unofficial meetings between the leaders of the Big Four peacemakers - dubbed the Supreme Council - and their aides had been taking place for a week in a smaller chamber in the same building, and the maneuverings were afoot. It was nine weeks since the armistice — David A. Andelman

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth. — Fareed Zakaria

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone. — Imre Kertesz

How strange, this habit of weeping. Do animals weep? Surely they feel sadness - but do they express it with tears? He doubts it. He has never heard of a weeping cat or dog, or of a weeping wild animal. It seems to be a uniquely human trait. He doesn't see what purpose it serves. He weeps hard, even violently, and at the end of it, what? Desolate tiredness. A handkerchief soaked in tears and mucus. Red eyes for everyone to notice. And weeping is undignified. It lies beyond the tutorials of etiquette and remains a personal idiom, individual in its expression. The twist of face, quantity of tears, quality of sob, pitch of voice, volume of clamour, effect on the complexion, the play of hands, the posture taken: One discovers weeping - one's weeping personality - only upon weeping. It is a strange discovery, not only to others but to oneself. Resolve — Yann Martel

I'm Jerry Lawler, I make fun of women because I have no self-esteem. — Santino Marella

And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty. — Kim Harrison

I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes. — Hillary Clinton

Hope is a cancer. One of two things happens. Either you never learn the truth, in which case it gnaws down to the bone until there's nothing left, or worse, you do, and you go through that windshield at ninety because hope told you it was okay to make the drive without a seat belt. — Matthew FitzSimmons

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available — Gregory Benford