Tratativas Quotes & Sayings

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply. — Nhat Hanh

That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing. — Jonathan Edwards

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. — Tony Campolo

If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there. — Susan Sontag

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief. — Brian Koppelman

It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it gives you the opportunity to learn from other people's experience. — Kathryn Alesandrini

I'd like to praise the drivers who picked me up. If I ever hear another elitist jerk use the term flyover people, I'll punch him in the mouth. My riders were brave and open-minded, and their down-to-earth kindness gave me new faith in how decent Americans can be. They are the only heroes in this book. — John Waters

Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are. — Victor Robert Lee

Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex? — Rue McClanahan

I missed the whole thing [X-files series]. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and pieces of it in maybe season seven or eight or something, and then was very busy doing whatever else, stand-up comedy and stuff throughout the world. Now I'm watching the show right from the beginning. — Rhys Darby

I shall always tell you everything. — Charles Dickens

They tended to look at his lips, for his transient gaze was dizzying, though the mouth, you see, the mouth was also a danger, for the teeth would do the unraveling. — Erica Alex

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. — Charles Baudelaire