Convivencia Social Quotes

#1. I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

Yann Martel

#2. I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.

Noam Chomsky

#4. You'll be tested every single day.

John Ratzenberger

#5. I just want to be entertained. The stories that have aged the best are the ones where the wolf eats grandma, or the woman is going to bake children in an oven, or the bear is going to eat the girl for eating the porridge. There are lessons in there, but they're deeply engrained and hidden.

Drew Daywalt

#6. To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. my phone rings. I sense my hard-won optimism is about to get a smackdown. The Angel of Death, also known as my mother, Lenore Tate, long-suffering widow and professional pessimist.

Kristan Higgins

#8. If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.

Christopher Buckley

#9. She was night without the promise of dawn, darkness without light.

John Connolly

#10. The point is that people need to stop bitching about how things should be and learn to live with how they are.

The Betches

#11. I came up with a pen and tablet hoping to write an immortal short story, but I've been having a dreadful time with my heroine - I CAN'T make her behave as I want her to behave; so I've abandoned her for the moment, and am writing to you.

Jean Webster

#12. America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

Janet Reno