Suyapa Figueroa Quotes & Sayings

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious. — Bertrand Russell

Pay attention: what you need to know is usually in front of you. There are no secrets, just things people choose not to notice. — Ethan Hawke

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets ... — William Jones

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. — Samuel Johnson

He saw that nothing was good and nothing was evil; things were merely adapted to an end. — W. Somerset Maugham

Tim Irwin cites the maxim: If the leader didn't come to work today, everything would probably still get done; but if the people didn't come to work today, nothing would get done. — Richard Blackaby

The extraordinary-looking pair of young people weren't holding hands, but the way they tilted ever so subtly toward each other made it clear that they didn't have to touch to feel the other. Even the air between them crackled with a kind of magnetism that had yet to be discovered by science, but that poets had been writing about since the dawn of time. — Josephine Angelini

Every time I mess up is a chance to practice. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Remind your bones that that dance inside something worthy — Q. Gibson

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper. — Laurence Shames

I think the worth of a person comes more from who you are and less from what you are. Knox — Linda Kage

Thus, constriction and impoverishment of personality make it possible to avoid subjective conflict and concomitant anxiety. But the person's freedom, originality, capacity for independent love, as well as his other possibilities for expansion and development as an autonomous personality are renounced in the same process. By accepting impoverishment of personality, one can buy temporary freedom from anxiety, to be sure. But the price for this 'bargain' is the loss of those unique and most precious characteristics of the human self. — Rollo May

I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem. — Kim Vogel Sawyer

When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specifically:
His rhinoceros smelled like a poppadom: sweaty, salty, strange and strong.
Her editor would cut that line. — Jaclyn Moriarty

Go away, little ghost. Go haunt someone else. — Marie Rutkoski