Venenosas Adelfas Quotes & Sayings

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. — Miguel De Cervantes

I'm going to kick his ass for touching you," he growls. "And for wrecking my bike."
"I'm glad I came first in that sentence."
"Baby, you always come first. — Suzanne Young

To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand - that is art. — James Joyce

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me. — Jonny Wilkinson

I've thought about you every day ... I've dreamt about you every night. — S.C. Stephens

I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket.
Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes.
I know that some people like:
sunny and seventy-five,
sunny and seventy-five,
sunny and seventy-five,
but you take me as I am and never
forget to pack an umbrella. — Naomi Shihab Nye

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

I will only say generally, that in proportion as any given body is more fitted than others for doing many actions or receiving many impressions at once, so also is the mind, of which it is the object, more fitted than others for forming many simultaneous perceptions; and the more the actions of the body depend on itself alone, and the fewer other bodies concur with it in action, the more fitted is the mind of which it is the object for distinct comprehension. We may thus recognize the superiority of one mind over others, and may further see the cause, why we have only a very confused knowledge of our body, and also many kindred questions, which I will, in the following propositions, deduce from what has been advanced. — Baruch Spinoza