Zorro Isabel Allende Quotes & Sayings

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will. — Owen Feltham

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother. — Henry Ward Beecher

It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough. — Richard Llewellyn

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them.
As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra once said, Don't waste your time trying to fight forecasters, stock analysts, economists and social scientists, except to play pranks on them. — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Velvet Jesus faced a shadow man to my left. Laser beams fired from his eyes. — David Wong

To be a part of Laika's universe is an opportunity not to be passed up. — Isaac Hempstead-Wright

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period. — Peter L. Berger

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done. — Ray Bradbury

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. — James Allen

For where thou art, there is the world itself,
With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation. — William Shakespeare

Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee? — William Shakespeare

But as I listened to my various mentors argue away the afternoon, I finally caught on to the basic point of it all. With chocolate, there are no straight answers. There are only strongly held opinions. — Mort Rosenblum