Adelfa Calvo Quotes

#1. All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

Samuel Beckett

#2. Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long ...

Gavin De Becker

#3. The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance.

Benny Hinn

#4. A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Lana Turner

#5. Tenderness is the rest of passion.

Joseph Joubert

#6. When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

Ben Chandler

#7. How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#8. Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.

Mitch Albom

#9. The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Emily Dickinson

#11. We are, quite rightly, not interested in the theoretical issue of suffering and evil; rather, we are torn apart by what is happening to real people, to those we know and love.

Stanley Hauerwas

#12. One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the "I" into a "we" at all. I'm still surprised at how mad critics get at that kind of confessional writing.

Kiese Laymon

#13. I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

Kacey Musgraves

#14. I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

Harry Turtledove