Viciana Press Quotes & Sayings

Taking care of the elderly comes without the vast literature of advice and encouragement that accompanies other kinds of commitments, notably romantic love and childbearing. It sneaks up on you as something that is not supposed to happen, or rather you crash into this condition that you have not been warned about, a rocky coast not on the map. In the preferred stories the last years of life are golden and the old all ripen into wisdom, not decay into diseases that mimic mental illness and roll backward into chaotic childhood and beyond. — Rebecca Solnit

(Carter): "I've been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place."
(Emma): "You did all that for me?"
(Carter): "I would declare war for you. — Tijan

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center. — Eddie Van Halen

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out. — Stephen Strasburg

Saving Aven was like saving a part of you. The part that you loved the most. The part I wanted to get to know. — Jordana Frankel

Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out. — David Lee Roth

Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do
for family and for community and for humanity as a whole. — Alan Keyes

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy. — Theodor Adorno

After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light as air, and you ... you don't even ask for anything or try to say something to him because it's obviously your own damn fault. You haven't been able to- to what? To open your heart. You open your legs but can't, or don't dare anymore, to open your heart. — Susan Minot

I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan. — P. J. O'Rourke

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them. — David Attenborough

And do you know what happens to people who give out second chances like Halloween candy? They get fucked over. — A. Zavarelli

Suffering is wishing things were other than they are. — Gautama Buddha

It hasn't been anything that's been overwhelming or anything, but I do get recognized here and there. — Danny McBride

It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda. — Paul Kagame