Retiro Madrid Quotes & Sayings

You never ever asked Lady Luck for a date; she had a way of standing men up just when they needed her the most. But if she showed up on her own ... well, it was wise to drop whatever it was you were doing and take her out and wine her and dine her just as lavishly as you could. That was one bitch who always put out if you treated her right. — Stephen King

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world. — Nikolai Gogol

I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved. — Christoffel Wiese

Be confident and stop worrying — Chantel C.

Once upon a time there was a dream.
Now we have only to draw it. — Jenika Ioffreda

To do a sequel is so weird, you don't really think about it. — Seann William Scott

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue. — Hildegard Of Bingen

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality. — Sam Harris

You wanna blow money? Put it in a 'blow' category in your budget. But at least admit it on paper! — Dave Ramsey

Please, please, if there's anyone on this planet with the power to perform miracles, let us all be able to be together next year, and the year after that, and all the years after that one, too ... I know. I'm not stupid. I know I said I didn't want anything, and now I'm wishing for the most unrealistic, hardest thing I ever could. I must be way more of a selfish crybaby now than I was back when I really didn't have anything. — Yukako Kabei

Folded in your arms, I shall sink to sleep; Your hand shall close my eyes for ever, and your lips receive my dying breath. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason. — Johann Gottfried Herder

In war, truth is the first casualty. — Aeschylus

After the cafes of Paris with their exquisite wines and creamy fromages, crepes and steak tartare
screaming Adore me!
Madrid was these store-bought hunks of unyielding cheese and brick-hard baguettes, consumed in leafless Buen Retiro Park.ll Madrid, dressed as it was, tasting as it did, prideful as hell, didn't care what you thought about it on your junior-year backpacking trip. That was your problem. — Michael Paterniti

The woman's face was grimly drawn, an ugly expression on an indescribably beautiful face. "This is the Shadowdun. You know who I am, but I wish to know you more. What is your name?" Her voice was rich; it sounded sweet and smooth in Athena's ears, like soft honey. She hated every last word. — Kendra Sunderson

To love without criticism is to be betrayed. — Djuna Barnes