Sobresaltado In English Quotes & Sayings

Waiting for Godot — Cary Elwes

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet. — Richard Cecil

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with. — Cormac McCarthy

Seasons had come and gone; presidents in Kabul had been inaugurated and murdered; an empire had been defeated; old wars had ended and new ones had broken out. But Mariam had hardly noticed, hardly cared. She had passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.
But somehow, over these last months, Laila and Aziza - a harami like herself, as it turned out - had become extensions of her, and now, without them, the life Mariam had tolerated for so long suddenly seemed intolerable.
We're leaving this spring, Aziza and I. Come with us, Mariam. — Khaled Hosseini

I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure? — Kim Ung-yong

Children who are neglected by their parents - despite their parents' best intentions - grow up to feel insignificant, insecure, unloved and - more than anything else - angry. To make children feel important, loved and safe, parents should be physically and emotionally available to their children for a few hours every day, which he calls 'quantity time. — Shmuel Boteach

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room. — John Amaechi

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice. — H.L. Mencken

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot. — Ben Stein

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in. — Guy Lafleur

I feel like it's the most boring thing, sitting on the treadmill or on a bike. It just explodes my mind! — Liam Hemsworth

I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes. — Matt Gonzalez