Hortensia Quotes

#1. I don't think we've explained it very well, Prudencia, said Hortensia. It's not the husband who has to be the source of harmony. It's not in him that you have to seek harmony. No, it's in the marriage, in the combination of the two of you, that you've got to look for it.

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

#2. It is always a high possibility to see lights after midnight in the house of a writer! That is the light of the love for words!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

Aphra Behn

#4. One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

Michael Bywater

#5. Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

John McTiernan

#7. He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.

Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

#8. It's dead nice to know I've achieved something.

Lauren Socha

#9. Pride and love can't live in the same heart; one will surely die.

Mykisha Mac

#10. When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.

Mark McKinnon

#11. I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

Martin Freeman

#12. No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

R.D. Laing

#13. It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. Always remember ... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless ...

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#15. Life would be comfortable if only the people around you would be more interested in what they were doing with their own lives than in what you were doing with yours. How is it that all the people around you know more about the best way to lead your life than you do yourself?

Suresh Chandrasekaran

#16. Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

Piers Paul Read