Vacilando Quotes & Sayings

I gave my wife a kiss this morning. She jumped out of bed and did a lap of honour. — Frank Carson

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home. — Delmore Schwartz

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another. — Salman Rushdie

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. — C.S. Lewis

I don't think I'm funny. — Liam Neeson

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood. — Edith Wharton

Stress often comes from speed. So slow down, be simple, enjoy the profound beauty of the little flowers. — Debasish Mridha

My brother & I have always said that to write a song, it takes all the experiences of your life, plus the time it takes to write it! To be specific, yes, sometimes a song takes place in one session - together in one day. — Richard Sherman

We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years. — Robert P. McCulloch

Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ." ... and ... "The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers. — Thane Rosenbaum

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose. — Robert Breault

Nature is a haunted house
but Art
is a house that tries to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson

In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR ... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction. — John Steinbeck