Valencian Rice Quotes & Sayings

And the crow once called the raven black. — George R R Martin

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude. — Jurgen Habermas

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air. — Aaron Spelling

Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it. — Ray Charles

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today. — R.D. Laing

My lowest self says: "That person is acting like a total jerk!"
My slightly higher self says: "That person is acting like a total jerk right now only because he's going through a really hard time in life, and his parents never taught him how to behave better, and he might have some sort of mild mental illness, and also he has a drinking problem ... so I should try to be more compassionate and generous toward sad, tragic, miserable people like that."
My even higher self says: "We are all just flawed and frightened human beings in an uncertain world, struggling to survive."
Then finally my VERY highest self says: "Lord, please help me stop acting like a total jerk."
... and that's when it finally stops being about the other person at all. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy. — Deepak Chopra

It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted? — Robert Green Ingersoll

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality. — Christopher Meloni

Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career. — Chris Penn

Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

See. That's what I don't get. If I am a good man, then why do I want to do bad things? — Pierce Brown

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.'
'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.'
'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.'
'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things. — Haruki Murakami

Life is not a popularity contest. — A.D. Posey