Villaseca De La Quotes & Sayings

For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed. — Amor Towles

Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."
-from "Starting from Paumanok — Walt Whitman

The problem doesn't lie with the great teachers. Great teachers strive to create linchpins. The problem lies with the system that punishes artists and rewards bureaucrats instead. Here — Seth Godin

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet. — Jackie Pullinger

I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy. — Judy Gold

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it. — Siegfried Lenz

The past is useful only insofar as it justifies the present; the present is not of value in itself or autonomous, but subject to the image of the past. — Eli Lederhendler

Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers. — Bear Bryant

This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and quicker for reporters to transmit. — Tom Standage

In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost. — Guy Finley