Sustanciales O Quotes & Sayings

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. — Sheri S. Tepper

But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them. — Lesley Howarth

Be advised, your objective is to raise a child from birth to adulthood so that she is a productive member of society. Minimum casualties. — Tonya Burrows

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You may claim no affiliation with them, but perhaps some have crossed your path.And perhaps you'd like to help us find them."
"Oh,sure.You killed my mother. You can imagine I'm dying to help you out."
Thomas manages to ignore me again. He glances at the first photo projected on the wall. "Know this person?"
I shake my head. "Never seen him before."
Thomas clicks the remote. Another photo pops up. "How about this one?"
"Nope."
Another photo. "How about this?"
"Nope."
Yet another stranger pops up on the wall. "Seen this girl before?"
"Never seen her in my life."
More unfamiliar faces. Thomas goes through them without blinking an eye or questioning my responses. What a stupid puppet of the state. I watch him as we continue, wishing I weren't chained so I could beat this man to the ground. — Marie Lu

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so — Ronald Reagan

Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way! — Winsor McCay

People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect. — H.L. Mencken

Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours. — Gary North

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others. — Tessa Thompson

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven. — Noel Coward

Control is part of faking it — Alex Flinn