Roperos Modernos Quotes & Sayings

During last night's insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life ... — Franz Kafka

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all. — John Wooden

Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated. — Adi Shamir

I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth."
"If I were the last man on earth it'd be because you drove the other poor suckers to early graves. — Libba Bray

In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard — Thomas Noon Talfourd

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them. — Richard Mitchell

I felt a new sense of optimism and excitement. "Lori," I said to myself, "you have to make your own happiness. You can't expect people to just come to you and make you their project." I agreed with myself and promised to do better. To get into Spanish life, I started making a mental list of all the things I could do to become more Spanish. — Lori L. Tharps

Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian. — Robert E. Howard

Hell," he said. "Just when it was getting interesting, too." And he leaped into the water after his friend. — Cassandra Clare

I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to. — Nick Kroll

When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed. — David Hume

Each morning at Holy Mass, the Bread of Life will help the body as well as the soul, if we have faith. If we but touch the hem of His garment ... and how much more have we than that! We can find Him, at every moment, on the altar. Be with Him there. Better than all books! Thank the Trinity over and over again for this Gift. Rest in His presence, and my guardian angel will adore Him for me. Silence. — Edel Quinn

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter. — Andrew Young