Tergiversar Que Quotes & Sayings

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? — William Shakespeare

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home. — James Levine

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible. — Simon Van Booy

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. — William Butler Yeats

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs. — Joyce Carol Oates

Never. Never again would he allow any other man to define him, set his course. — Alexandra Bracken

The way he hated Sundays because they were always followed by a Monday, and a job that you hate will always destroy a Sunday. — Carolyn T. Dingman

The path that he followed being fixed for ever in his memory by the general excitement due to being in a strange place, to doing unusual things, — Marcel Proust

Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: No. Genius! — F Scott Fitzgerald

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. — Mahatma Gandhi

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment. — John Knowles

The afternoon sun was bright above the cloud, lending to the scene a silvery glow that leached the sea of colour and picked out points of white light in the sand. The very raindrops seemed to shimmer in the air; the wind, blowing chill from the ocean, carried with it a pleasant, rusty smell. All this did much to dispel Devlin's torpor, and in very little time at all he was red-cheeked and smiling, his white brimmed hat clamped tight to his head with the palm of his hand. He decided to make the most of his perambulation, and return to Hokitika via the high terrace of Seaview: the site of the future Hokitika Gaol, and Devlin's own future residence. — Eleanor Catton

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. — Vladimir Lenin

The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us. — Ami Vitale