Sibonia Quotes & Sayings

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams. — Francisco Franco

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior

It's time for women to stop being politely angry. — Leymah Gbowee

95% of the people who walk the earth are inert, Johnny. 1% are saints, and 1% are assholes. The other 3% do what they say they can do. — Stephen King

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In 1738, the Pope issued an encyclical banning all participation in Masonry under threat of excommunication. — James Wasserman

You have to figure out how to survive depression, which is really not easy because when you're depressed you're more exhausted than you've ever been in your life and your brain is lying to you and you feel unworthy of the time and energy (which you often don't even have) needed to get help. That's why you have to rely on friends and family and strangers to help you when you can't help yourself. — Jenny Lawson

It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory. — Yael Stone

In its enervating plains, far removed from the invigorating sea-breeze and the bracing cold of the mountain ranges, the keen eye, undaunted heart, and relentless arm of the successive hardy northern immigrants slowly but surely tend to change to the placid look, folded hands and brooding mind of the Eastern Sage, who, content to dream his dream of life, wearily turns from the conflict and dire struggle for existence, — R.W. Frazer

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. — Thomas Carlyle

I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature." — David Gordon Green

Enduring habits I hate ... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Work is a major instrument of God's providence; it is how he sustains the human world. — Timothy Keller

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way. — Adolf Loos

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement. — Henry Petroski