De Compostela Quotes

#1. My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.

Paulo Coelho

#2. summer of 2011, when the first call to walk the Camino Santiago de Compostela had tugged at my soul, I would not have known this was my why. A tug so fierce I had no choice but to follow, the next years would guide me to

Katharine Elliott

#3. He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life of service and self-sacrifice. Everybody had said it was beautiful and inspiring. Only he had not felt inspired. He had felt nothing at all.

Ayn Rand

#4. Though Emerson is a firm believer in the equality of the female sex, he has some secret reservations, and one of them involves the car. (There is something about these machines that makes men want to pound their chests and roar like gorillas. I speak figuratively, of course.)

Elizabeth Peters

#5. A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

Steven Weinberg

#6. There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.

Edwin Mullins

#7. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!

John Keats

#8. Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.

David Hallberg

#9. It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

Noah Baumbach

#10. I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy.

Kelly Epperson

#11. The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Alfred Marshall

#12. You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

Cotton Mather

#13. The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.

Mike Simpson

#15. Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

Susan Sarandon

#16. Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

Cennino Cennini

#17. In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

David Byrne

#18. No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is.

Sheri L. Dew