Texturas Para Quotes & Sayings

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure. — Tommy Lee

Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California. — Ben Lerner

As for my clothes, they suit the life I lead. The current fashions are impractical for an active person. Skirts so tight one must toddle like an infant, bodices boned so firmly it is impossible to draw a deep breath ... And bustles! Of all the idiotic contrivances foisted upon helpless womankind, the bustle is certainly the worst. I wear them, since it is impossible to have a gown made without them, but at least I can insist on sensible dark fabrics and a minimum of ornament. What a fool I should look in puffs and frills and crimson satin - or a gown trimmed with dead birds, like one I saw! — Elizabeth Peters

Instead of swinging back and forth between individual points of truth, each piece we learn should build upon another to bring us closer to the full truth. — Amy Layne Litzelman

Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman and my tenets don't permit me to veil Nor is it any good trying to make friends through the women - if they were allowed to see me they would veil before me as if I were a man. So you see I appear to be too female for one sex and too male for the other. — Gertrude Bell

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. — T. S. Eliot

Let's stop by the shades of a tavern--
Selling raspberry handshakes,
Let's recline by the shimmer of a lantern-
Trampling the silence of snowflakes; — Ashfaq Saraf