Analfabeto Funcional Quotes

#1. I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop.

Red Haircrow

#2. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver.

Tana French

#3. For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

John Clare

#4. Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

Amy Poehler

#5. If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.

Leon Panetta

#6. I've always welcomed war, but when the last battle ends, what life is left for a warrior?

Andrea Cremer

#7. But isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?
think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.

Charles Bukowski

#8. We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.

Allen West

#9. Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future ... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.

Jeremy Robinson

#10. An important step in getting to know God is to realize how available he is to us. In learning to hear God, it helps us to take on faith the fact that we are already in his presence. If we must make ourselves worthy of his presence first, we will never get there.

Craig S. Keener

#11. I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.

Amy Landecker

#12. Get-rich-quick schemes are for the lazy & unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them.

Steve Maraboli

#13. She collected silence like other people collected strings. But she had a way of saying nothing that said it all.

Terry Pratchett

#14. The self-help movement that began in the latter half of the twentieth century suffers particularly from this flaw, for the personal and interpersonal skills it seeks to cultivate are almost always designed to get us more of what we think we want, rather than to bring about a change of heart.

C. Terry Warner