Rico Silva Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham. — P.G. Wodehouse

The war's [World War II] end has left America with loads of get-up-and-go, and no place to go. — Barbara Kingsolver

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. — George Sand

What are you doing Muggle Studies for?" said Ron, rolling his eyes at Harry. "You're Muggle-born! Your mum and dad are Muggles! You already know all about Muggles! — J.K. Rowling

If you need to be selective about the work at a company, maybe you need to be more selective about the company you work for! — Bruce Outridge

The Startup Act should give all Americans, not just immigrants, a better shot at being tomorrow's engineers and entrepreneurs. And that opportunity could begin at a young age with education in computer programming. — Marvin Ammori

Thank you for the time we shared, for the love you gave, for the wisdom you spread. I will always treasure the lessons you taught me. I will carry them with me all the days of my life. I am so proud to be your child.
-From A Prayer When a Parent Dies — Naomi Levy

Just calling one's practice "approach and accomplishment" and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions of mantras will not even bring the warmth of the ordinary qualities that mark one's progress on the path! In other words, if the essential points of the path are not taken into account, perseverance will amount to nothing more than chasing a mirage. — Patrul Rinpoche

The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no exaggeration to say that the composition of the blood is determined not by what the mouth ingests but by what the kidneys keep; they are the master chemists of our internal environment, which, so to speak, they synthesize in reverse. — Homer Smith

Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. — Marcus Aurelius

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless. — Deepak Chopra

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Standing now, apparently transfixed, by the pear tree, impressions poured in upon her of those two men, and to follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one's pencil, and the voice was her own voice saying without prompting undeniable, everlasting, contradictory things, so that even the fissures and humps on the bark of the pear tree were irrevocably fixed there for eternity. — Virginia Woolf

I am the most loyal player money can buy. — Don Sutton