Valorada In English Quotes & Sayings

There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections. In a figure drawing class, an obese woman's folds of flesh take on a kind of beauty. You can look at a man's shrunken chest or legs or buttocks with tenderness. Age is not ugly, just poignant. — Joyce Maynard

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow — Norman Vincent Peale

Economists Mason Gaffney and Fred Harrison claim in their work The Corruption of Economics that industrialists toward the end of the 19th century may have intentionally created and promoted a new brand of economics (neoclassical) to divert public attention from the monopolization of nature. Neoclassical economics treats nature as capital - a resource to be exploited. — Martin Adams

Will looked back at me, startled, and I kept my heart muscle strong, feeling something inside me shiver like a pale green flower shoot just waking up for spring. But whatever that thing was, it was still too new to feel ready to bloom; it wanted time to set down roots. Someday soon I was going to bloom like crazy and then I'd have what I needed to keep me standing tall. — Ingrid Law

after all we had been through, we would still risk death rather than live under communists. The craving for freedom was too strong. — Joan D. Criddle

When so much is lost, heroes are found. — Lydia Criss Mays

King David is a wonderful example of a well-balanced man who was a warrior fighting battles on some days and a gentle, harp-playing composer on other days. — Vicki Courtney

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity. — Christoph Martin Wieland

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself. — Myles Munroe

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

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions. — Milton Friedman

Thinking about the word "coffee" makes you think about the color black and also about breakfast and the taste of bitterness, that's a function of a cascade of electrical impulses rocketing around a real physical pathway inside your brain, which links a set of neurons that encode the concept of coffee with others containing the concepts of blackness, breakfast, and bitterness. That much scientists know. But how exactly a collection of cells could "contain" a memory remains among the deepest conundrums of neuroscience. — Joshua Foer

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. — Elizabeth Bishop