Vanadio Simbolo Quotes & Sayings

For every thing that we are, there are a million things that we're not. And usually, those million things are what we really want but can never have. — Jason Carter Eaton

Quoting from Thomas Merton
Dialogues With Silence
The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that will transform his darkness into light. He does not even anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and, when he is answered it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence. It is by his silence itself, suddenly, inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God. (17) — Stephen Cope

If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business. — Chuck Hagel

Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing. — Debra L. Lee

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The man chuckled. "You would do well to speak kindly of her. She will be your Queen before long.
"Over my dead body," Rose snapped. — Brandi Gillilan

I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality. — Abbas Kiarostami

But God will know the slow tread of an old couple's love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it. — Miles Cameron

I had to stop. I threw my kindle across the room. My eyes were so filled with tears that the words were becoming blurry toward the end. — Penelope Ward

'Bless Me, Ultima' is quite autobiographical in the sense that I was writing a story about my childhood, my hometown where I grew up, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, on Old Highway 66 and the Pecos River. So a great deal of that environment, landscape, people, got thrown in the novel. — Rudolfo Anaya

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. — Jon Krakauer

Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation. — Olav Thon