Quebracho Blanco Quotes & Sayings

I'm not going to pretend I know how this ends, and I don't have a freaking clue if it's possible to fall in love over email. But I would really like to meet you, Blue. I want to try this. And I can't imagine a scenario where I don't want to kiss your face off as soon as I see you. — Becky Albertalli

The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms. — Mary Oliver

Civilization was a defense against nature's raw power. — Gregory Benford

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart. — David Gilmour

I make it a policy never to seduce anyone prettier than I am."
I laughed. "I think that was an insult. — Leigh Bardugo

The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland. — Martin Jacques

You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country. — Swami Vivekananda

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos. — D.H. Lawrence

I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C. — Mike Birbiglia

The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915. — Ahmet Ertegun

I can make up my homework, but I can't make up my life. — David Levithan