Varadero Quotes & Sayings

It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not. — Hanya Yanagihara

I'm not too big on cats, and sometimes I'll say something like that, and people get so mad at me. But the truth is, I don't care if they get mad. — Blake Shelton

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. — G.K. Chesterton

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one. — Guy De Maupassant

When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction. — A.B. Simpson

People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances. — Ruth Ahmed

Tired of that hermeneutical delirium, the workers turned away from the authorities in Macondo and brought their complaints up to the higher courts. It was there that the sleight-of-hand lawyers proved that the demands lacked all validity for the simple reason that the banana company did not have, never had had, and never would have any workers in its service because they were all hired on a temporary and occasional basis. So that the fable of the Virginia ham was nonsense, the same as that of the miraculous pills and the Yuletide toilets, and by a decision of the court it was established and set down in solemn decrees that the workers did not exist. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Case in point: Byrdie, the son growing effortlessly into lifelong boyhood. Still a schoolboy, soon to be an old boy, blithely accepting accidents as privileges - for instance, his natural immunity to HIV. (Byrdie liked studious, upper-class females. They were not exactly high risk.) Byrdie was the phoenix edition of Lee, adapted to the novel environment, and Lee was a useless relic. He had positioned himself all his life as a rebel against a hegemonic order no one was interested in questioning anymore. It had lost its power to crush and all its clumsy weapons that inspired active fear. Its dominance was equal, but separate. — Nell Zink

Nevertheless, some people are afraid to pray. They hear others speak beautiful prayers and become self-conscious. God, however, cares less about beautiful words than a humble heart. — Ken Golden

We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time. — Yousuf Karsh

Gandalf looked at him. My dear Bilbo! he said. Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were. — J.R.R. Tolkien