Velha Safada Quotes & Sayings

Once people envisioned the possibility of change in a fixed order, the end of an age of submission came in sight; the turn to individual conscience lay ahead. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I begin with writing the first
sentence - and trusting to Almighty
God for the second. — Laurence Sterne

A necklace of pearls on a white neck.
We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began to settle down.
... the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty ... — Evelyn Waugh

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. — Edward Gibbon

Well," he said, "I'm glad to see you're finally taking some precautions, but you weren't this tense when I dropped you off last night." "But you were this annoying. At least one of us is consistent. — Kalayna Price

You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke. — Lailah Gifty Akita

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners. — Paul Begala

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. — Pat Metheny

It is always about you for me. — Sarah Rees Brennan

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando. — Eddie Marsan

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative. — Octavio Paz