Surrealista Catalan Quotes & Sayings

It was becoming very complicated because of all the modifications they were doing along the way and taking everyone double the work hours to get things done. — Sheri Grunska

O brother, the gods were good to you.
Sleep, and be glad while the world
endures.
Be well content as the years wear
through;
Give thanks for life, and the loves and
lures;
Give thanks for life, O brother, and
death,
For the sweet last sound of her feet, her
breath,
For gifts she gave you, gracious and
few,Tears and kisses, that lady of yours. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. — Assata Shakur

And now I begin to understand why I was imprisoned so many years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars; for if I had sooner made my escape into the world, I should have grown hard and rough, and been covered with earthly dust, and my heart might have become callous by rude encounters with the multi-tude ... But living in solitude till the fulness of time was come, I still kept the dew of my youth and the freshness of my heart ... I used to think that I could imagine all passions, all feelings and states of the heart and mind; but how little did I know! ... Indeed, we are but shadows - we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream - till the heart be touched. That touch creates us, - then we begin to be, - thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. — E.L. Doctorow

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent. — Jennifer Lawrence

Any idiot can face a crisis, it is day to day living that wears you out. - Anton Chekhov — Anonymous

I turned to Ren, dropping my head low to honor the fallen alpha. The circled wolves did the same. I lifted my muzzle first, my howl singing out the pain of Ren's death, mourning him. One by one my packmates joined the song. Our howls filled the library, spilling into the winter night. The death song grew as the wolves still outside raised their voices to honor the lost young warrior. The chorus of wolf cries, full of heartache, swelled in the night, carrying Ren's memory to the very stars. — Andrea Cremer

It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does. — Randa Abdel-Fattah

Do not waste your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say. — Jonathan Meades

Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been. — Ruth Ann Minner

The percept takes priority of the concept. — Marshall McLuhan