Acometida De Agua Quotes

#1. Why, if it had been--a smothering instead of a wedding,

Charles Dickens

#2. We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Jennifer Egan

#3. Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Melinda Gates

#4. A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

Manuel Rivas

#5. A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Will Rogers

#6. The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.

Billy Joel

#7. When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#8. Who said, 'You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' " she'd asked Ree in last week's pottery class. "Socrates," Ree answered promptly. "Really? I was thinking more along the lines of Michelle Obama.

Anne Tyler