Veteranos Campelos Quotes & Sayings

This is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash. — Hilary Mantel

I'm a real Suzy Homemaker. — Suzy Bogguss

To live in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom, but I defend my freedom. And that comes with the courage to say what you think, even if sometimes others don't share those views. — Jose Mujica

You are not in the universe; the universe is hiding inside you and always looking out for you. — Debasish Mridha

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. — Henry Miller

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting. — Tod Machover

He barely managed not to choke it into free fall, atomized. Thick, green, herbal, sweet as syrup - he nearly gagged on the sweetness - perhaps sixty percent pure ethanol. But what was the rest of it? It burned down his esophagus, making him feel suddenly like an animated display of the digestive system, with all the different parts picked out in colored lights. Respectfully, he wiped the mouthpiece on his sleeve and handed the bottle to its owner, who tucked it back under his arm. "Thanks," Miles gasped. Mayhew nodded. "So how," Miles aspirated, then cleared his throat to a more normal tone, "what are you planning to do next? What are you demanding? — Lois McMaster Bujold

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up. — Evan Hunter

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way. — Ezra Taft Benson

I believe my strength has something to do with memory, with that concept of fluid time. For while I recall with clarity the terror of abuse, I also recall the green and lovely dream of childhood, the moist membrane of a leaf against my nose, the toads that peeled a golden pool in the palm of my hand. Pleasures, pleasures, the recollections of which have injected me with a firm and unshakable faith. I believe Dostoevski when he wrote, "If one had only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may be the means of saving us." I have gone by memory. — Lauren Slater

Sleep, baby, sleep
Your father tends the sheep
Your mother shakes the dreamland tree
And from it fall sweet dreams of thee
Sleep, baby, sleep. — Rosamund Lupton

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career. — Robert Urich

How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad. — John G. Neihardt

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. — Peter Conrad

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless. — Madam C. J. Walker