Reencontro De Amigos Quotes & Sayings

Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years. — Damon Galgut

Killing a teenager would be no big deal at all. — Darrell Pitt

Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year. — Dalai Lama

If you are setting a goal without understanding the reason for it, then maybe you should reevaluate the goal in general. — Tina Brown

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains. — George Santayana

I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away. — Megan Whalen Turner

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot. — Amartya Sen

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death. — Cal Thomas

In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed. — Martha Cooley

A woman loves purposeful commitment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, 'failure' meant an entrepreneurial failure. — Scott A. Sandage

Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers. — Robert H. Grubbs

The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah