Visitate La Quotes & Sayings

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. — John Locke

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track. — William Hague

Two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy. — Roseanne Barr

There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create of the situation you find yourself in leads to paralysis and ineffectual behaviour, then throw those damn words away and find yourself a new set. There is always some useful description of the world that empowers and gives you choices and your task, if you are going to use words at all, is to find that set of words. — Moshe Feldenkrais

Empathy doesn't necessarily mean being self-sacrificing. Far from it. Understanding how someone else sees things doesn't imply that you'll act in his interest; in some situations - in war, for example - you want to do exactly the opposite. — Paul Graham

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face. — Joy Williams

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity. — Neal A. Maxwell

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie. — Alexander Pope

I froze all night. My back's killing me. I want home, and I'm scared to death. But I guess the view makes it all worth it."
"You're funny," Angel said — Jayde Scott

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness. — Augustus William Hare

Never was a Family more insistent on learning one another's movements than were the Bunch. All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week. — Sinclair Lewis

The journey is my home. — Muriel Rukeyser

Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination. — Terence McKenna