Sonreia Quotes & Sayings

Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up. — Charles Babbage

Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions. — Richard Dawkins

To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own. — Sarah Arthur

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us. — Alistair Cooke

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul." - Jewish proverb — Jenny Berg Chandler

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won t. — William Faulkner

Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going. — Jon Gordon

A gentle word, a smile, an act of compassion, these are the things that can turn hate to love, — K.M. Shea

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that. — David Tennant

That is normal ... To be afraid. Do not let anyone tell you any different. No one can ever say that what you feel is right or wrong, or pointless or unworthy of your time. That is a truth for you to decide. Ignorance is bliss, but there comes a time when you must open your eyes and face the truth - when you must be honest with yourself. — Kelseyleigh Reber

You could give me the past," he said a little sadly. "But Alec is my future. — Cassandra Clare

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire. — Francois Fenelon