Saudosista Quotes & Sayings

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability. — Omar Bongo

It should be possible to discuss what I have put forward. Sometimes, when it has not been a good lecture, it would need very little, just one question, to put everything straight. However, this question never comes. The group effect in France makes any genuine discussion impossible. And as there is no feedback, the course is theatricalized. My relationship with the people there is like that of an actor or an acrobat. And when I have finished speaking, a sensation of total solitude ... — Michel Foucault

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation. — Honore De Balzac

Maybe that was where the trouble started? People tried to tame themselves within walls and windows, and they find knickknacks to make the walls and windows their own, when maybe what they needed was to be free of those constraints. Byron asked himself again how such a person could call herself a mistake. — Rachel Joyce

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes ... cities so packed that they will no longer function ... vertical sprawl. — Leon Krier

Brisbane and I passed a thoroughly satisfactory and entirely private evening in the solitude of our room. "Thank God for stout stone walls," he said at one point, and I heartily agreed. — Deanna Raybourn

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness. — Peter McWilliams

And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies: (a) is a problem: Something Must Be Done, (b) is Something, Therefore (b) Must Be Done. — Charles Stross

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it. — Dorothy Parker

At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison. I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair. I felt that I tottered upon the brink
I averted my eyes
— Edgar Allan Poe

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week. — Pam Grier