Zubiria Educacion Quotes & Sayings

In the big house opposite someone was playing the piano at Dolzhikov's. It was beginning to get dark, and stars were twinkling in the sky. Here my father, in an old top-hat with wide upturned brim, walked slowly by with my sister on his arm, bowing in response to greetings.
"Look up," he said to my sister, pointing to the sky with the same umbrella with which he had beaten me that afternoon. "Look up at the sky! Even the tiniest stars are all worlds! How insignificant is man in comparison with the universe!"
And he said this in a tone that suggested that it was particularly agreeable and flattering to him that he was so insignificant. How absolutely devoid of talent and imagination he was! — Anton Chekhov

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian. — Gene Weingarten

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him? — Joseph Heller

You need a prostate to understand," I said. — Jim Butcher

If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook. — Lance Gross

I'm the kind of Flying Wallenda who prays for a good net. That's all. Just a good net. — Bridget Asher

Cam leans close, and his lips brush my ear. "So much more, my sweetheart. You can't imagine the heights of desire I'd take you to. — Roxy Sloane

The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but — Amor Towles

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse. — John Donne

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate. — Arthur Rudolph

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. — Scott Bakula

Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer. — Isaac Asimov

You think you want me now. But you'll change. Someday you'll find it damned easy to forget about me. I'm a bastard. A servant, and not even an upper servant at that
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"You're the other half of me." (Again The Magic) — Lisa Kleypas

You can't let any team awe you. — Luke Appling