Prometo Fonseca Quotes & Sayings

I don't think there's any loneliness greater than the loneliness to be found in a bad marriage. In solitary confinement, everyone knows you're lonely and feels sorry for you. In a bad marriage loneliness is your darkest secret, one you dare not even share with your spouse. — Daniel Quinn

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. — William Irwin Thompson

But I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them. — Paula Hawkins

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man. — George Washington

Do you still love me, Janie?'
Janie stares at him, incredulous. 'Yes, of course! I don't say it lightly.'
'Say it lightly in my ear,' he demands.
She smiles, rests her soft cheek on his scratchy one, and whispers it. 'I love you, Cabe. — Lisa McMann

To suffer personally and directly due to the collective is not necessary, and is also a subtle form of masochism disguised as virtue. — Irma Kaye Sawyer

...I lived for those long casual walks down the beach and the sight of her small footprints in the glistening wet sand... — Pat Conroy

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money. — Ihara Saikaku

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. — Viktor E. Frankl

Because that's what happened to fury when tenderness was applied. It dissolved. — Julie Anne Long

I like the church, I like a cowl,
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;
Yet not for all his faith can see,
Would I that cowled churchman be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. — Norman Lear

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much! — Simone De Beauvoir

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress. — Marat Safin

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain. — Plato