Ymelda Rodriguez Quotes & Sayings

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself. — Wislawa Szymborska

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. — Rob Portman

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor. — Kat Dennings

In the same way that the best lies have an element of truth, maybe evil is made all the more powerful when it is accompanied by the startling presence of grace. — Rae Carson

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things. — Paul Cezanne

God punishing people for being good. God loving some people more than others. God asking fathers to kill their kids as proof of their faith. God giving kings special powers so they can slaughter entire nations. God not jumping in when His own kid get murdered. That's some crazy shit If that's the God they want me to believe in, no thank you. Ship me off to Hell right now so I can toss back a cold one with the zillion other people God never tortured with His infinite kindness. — Scott Blagden

I felt on the verge of something, a mystery that surrounded me like gauze, something I was beginning to unwind. — Janet Fitch

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself. — John Milton

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side. — Felix Dzerzhinsky

Though he had spoken of the subject many times, in the silence of his room he added the powerful kind of phrasing that would not have occurred to him as he spoke, because it's origins were in the collaboration of hand and pen. — Mark Helprin

Today is a day for celebration, no matter what your religion or your culture. Learn to celebrate today: celebrate the fact that you are alive, that you are breathing, that you have friends, family, angels and spirit guides in your life. — Margaret Neylon

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know. — Chrisette Michele

'La Vie en Rose' is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I'm so desperately obsessed with her work. — Max Von Essen

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. — Anne Bradstreet