Vencimiento Quotes & Sayings

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Mary Wortley Montagu

I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman. — Nuala O'Faolain

The infinite capacity of humans to wound one another without meaning or wanting to — Margaret Laurence

Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought. — Berton Braley

That's the thing about exes - for eternity you feel like rivals in a kind of happiness contest, and losing would be the epitome of tragedy. — Daria Snadowsky

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward. — Jim Leach

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. — Jane Hirshfield

Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. — Charles Dickens

Interpreting myself, I always read
Myself into my books. I clearly need
Some help. But all who climb on their own way
Carry my image, too, into the breaking day. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his fist and knock him out of existence — Joseph Heller

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. — Robert Byrd

Oh, this is horriculous. — Lisa Kleypas

My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car. — Mazo De La Roche

The whole conduct of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge reduced to will, affection and practice. — Richard Sibbes

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. — Katha Pollitt