Bel Mateo Quotes

#1. Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Seneca The Younger

#2. God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

Kirstie Alley

#3. Duncan lifted one shoulder. You may no longer be my lord officially, Sire. But in truth, it will always be so

D.B. Reynolds

#4. Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

George Orwell

#5. What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.

Slavoj Zizek

#6. The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. To let sorrow go his own way
one gives happiness a chance

Mario

#8. Paxton
If happiness is the end result, if it's that single want that matters, if we had to through that to get here, I'd do it all over again. If it's the love that matters, then why does it matter how we got there? We were the perfect storm of two kinds of crazy.

Jettie Woodruff

#9. Feel free to follow your own path while I follow mine.

Marty Rubin

#10. Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

Thomas Szasz

#11. The excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

Henry Fielding

#12. I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.

Jeffrey Osborne

#13. What qualified me to write about Israel was that I wanted to; it took no time to convince myself. The only reservation I had was about eaven: I wanted to write about the Jewish heaven but did not feel qualified because I did not and do not believe in 'it,' though I should.

Joshua Cohen

#14. What will happen to the flowers, now that you are gone? The earth that clings to the steps, the tulsi that begins to sprout. The colors that brighten the darkness of the stairs, the scents that perfume the air. Must I climb alone the petal-strewn trail of your descent?

Manil Suri

#15. Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be ... I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay.

Carl Everett