Vazia Vaca Quotes & Sayings

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate. — Mal Peet

MAY AND NOVEMBER VI. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line. — Donald Trump

It was a murky confusion - here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel - of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened. — Charles Dickens

I do think you need to listen to the voters. — Rob Portman

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind. — Hugh Jackman

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims. — Robert Spencer

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it." — Jodi Picoult

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon

Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face. — Brennan Manning

It's what we wrestle with every single day. The intersection of comfort, danger, and safety. The balancing act between vulnerability and shame. The opportunity (or the risk) to do art. The willingness to take responsibility for caring enough to make a difference and to have a point of view. — Seth Godin

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

The feelings we live through
in love and in loneliness
are simply, for us,
what high tide
and low tide are to the sea. — Kahlil Gibran

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays. — Eric Davis

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search. — Zadie Smith