Quienes Son Quotes & Sayings

When he was a kid, it used to feel like his parents disappeared when the got drunk. As the levels of their glasses went down, he could sense them pulling away from him, as if they were together on the same boat, slowly pulling away from the shore where Oliver was left stranded, still himself, still boring, sensible Oliver, and he'd think, Please don't go, stay here with me, because his real mother was funny and his real father was smart, but they always went. First his dad got stupid and his mum got giggly, and then his mum got nasty and his dad got angry, and so it went until there was no point staying and Oliver went to watch movies in his bedroom. He'd had his own VCR in his bedroom. He'd had a privileged upbringing, had never wanted for anything. — Liane Moriarty

Haters are your most dedicated fans: ordinary fans can be disappointed in you or can get tired of you etc. but haters never. — Bryanna Reid

Our inner selves go on without us sometimes, trusting we'll catch on eventually. Sometimes it's too late when we do - too late to let the other person know what we've learned. — Meredith Marple

I was many things. I was submissive. I was masochistic. I was trusting. I was a sexual slave. But obedient? Not as much. — C.D. Reiss

Yes, light, there is no other word for it. — Samuel Beckett

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do. — Milton Friedman

Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered. — Kirby Wright

Only two things kept her from loathing him.
The expression on his face when he'd said, "France."
And the expression on his face when he'd said, "home. — Julie Anne Long

There is one, and only one, advantage to somebody who cannot play the violin insisting on doing so anyways, and the advantage is that they often play so loudly that they cannot hear if the audience is having a conversation. It is extremely rude, of course, for an audience to talk during a concert performance, but when the performance is a wretched one, and lasts six hours, such rudeness can be forgiven. — Lemony Snicket

Congress may not get the Internet, but the Internet doesn't get Congress, either. — Rebecca MacKinnon

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor. — Vivienne Westwood

Unlike John Lasseter's bosses at Disney, Bezos was open to the entrepreneurial contributions of Amazon's individual employees - even when those ideas were outside what Wall Street (and even his own board of directors) considered the company's core business. AWS represents precisely the kind of value creation any CEO or shareholder would want from their employees. Want your employees to come up with multibillion-dollar ideas while on the job? You have to attract professionals with the founder mind-set and then harness their entrepreneurial impulses for your company. As Intuit CEO Brad Smith told us, A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create the environment where that greatness can emerge and grow. — Reid Hoffman

God says, "I have set before you an open door," not "I have set before you a finished script. — John Ortberg

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. — Ambrose Bierce

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride. — Muriel Rukeyser