Voluntarios De America Quotes & Sayings

What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit? — Leo Tolstoy

Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm? — Dan Millman

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore De Balzac

The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told. The — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom. — Malcolm Gladwell

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls. — Preston Sturges

Voss could always, if necessary, fail to understand. But wounds will wince, especially in the salt air. He was smiling and screwing up his eyes at the great theatre of light and water. Some pitied him. Some despised him for his funny appearance of a foreigner. None, he realized with a tremor of anger, was conscious of his strength. Mediocre, animal men never do guess at the power of rock or fire, until the last moment before those elements reduce them to - nothing. This, the palest, the most transparent of words, yet comes closest to being complete. — Patrick White

I put my soul into every book I write. — Wilbur Smith