Desamparo Aprendido Quotes

#1. The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

George Henry Lewes

#2. The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

Donald Trump

#3. I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#4. Something in me refused to be defeated by heartbreak. Oliver wasn't coming back but I wasn't going to abandon me either.

Kristel Villar

#5. A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

Deng Xiaoping

#6. How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.

Douglas Preston

#7. He sat down again. He wanted her body, even though there were plenty of other bodies he could have. Which meant, I suppose, that he wanted her body to want his. It would have been beneath his intellectual dignity to admit that he also wanted her soul to like his own soul.

Hugh MacLennan

#8. [Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight vanishes so swiftly that he is plunged again into the darkness of night before he can take even a step-let alone be directed on the way by its help.

John Calvin

#9. The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.

Kevin Morby

#10. We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it's often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

Max De Pree

#11. I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl.

Scheana Marie