Valladolid Mx Quotes & Sayings

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius — Conn Iggulden

But matters of the heart are not governed by time. - Thomas Allen, Jenny Kissed Me! — Thomas Allen

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one. — Miyamoto Musashi

I'm looking at [my daughter] right now. To think that I am her dad is the greatest honor in the world. She's an amazing kid. We have a great relationship and she is one of my closest friends. I seek her advice. I like to know what she thinks about things, and she's helped me through some really tough times. I just look forward to years of developing that relationship. — Harry Connick Jr.

This basic problem of relevance-cum-subservience has been given an added twist in the modern world, where relevance has become not only hollow but fragile and short-lived. A wider range of choices, a deeper uncertainty of events, a more pressing need for new styles - all this makes for an accelerating turnover of issues, concerns and fads. Nothing tires like a trend or ages faster than a fashion. Today's bold headline is tomorrow's yellowing newsprint. Thus the relevance-hungry liberals achieve relevance, but their victory is Pyrrhic. It is precisely as they win that they lose. As they become relevant to one group or movement, they become irrelevant to another and find themselves rudely dismissed. Far from being in the avant-garde, Christian liberals trot smartly behind the times. Far from being genuinely new or radical, they catch up and announce their discoveries breathlessly, only to see the vanguard disappearing down the road on the trail of a different pursuit. — Os Guinness

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles. — Evelyn Waugh

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. — George Eliot

God, there were so many of them.
So many sets of dying eyes and scuffing feet. — Markus Zusak

Yeah, I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing a lot of things most people look down on but it did pay off. Then we started rapping about real stuff that shook up the LAPD and the FBI. But we got our message across big time, and everyone in America started paying attention to the boys in the hood. — Eazy-E

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one. — Dashiell Hammett

The beauty of life depends on how you respond not in how true you answer. — Debasish Mridha

When you keep to yourself, people will fill in the details about your life themselves. — Karen Lynch

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Everything is hell now and I deserve it, but I can handle pain. — Katja Millay

Technology & technicians, you can always buy with money; but the wealthiest person must build relationships. — Shiv Khera