Combatentes De Canudos Quotes

#1. He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Aristotle.

#2. I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.

Camille Paglia

#3. I feel intensely guilty for working ... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.

Melissa McCarthy

#4. No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

Nina LaCour

#5. Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Aimee Mullins

#6. For it is often the hardest tasks that build the most character.

Jody Hedlund

#7. My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

Tim Allen

#8. If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.

Van Jones

#9. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our constitution works.

Gerald R. Ford

#10. He smiled mysteriously. Adults are so good at smiling mysteriously. Do they go to college for that?

Sherman Alexie

#11. I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#12. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.

Charles Bukowski

#13. Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

George Allen, Sr.