Malagradecido Quotes

#1. He that rules by mind is like the north star, steady in his seat, whilst the stars all bend to him.

Confucius

#2. It is better to be helpful than harmful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

John Calvin

#4. If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes

Alan Cohen

#5. The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

Jane Hirshfield

#6. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

Sloane Crosley

#7. I'd never driven a Porsche in my life and it made me nervous to drive one now, but I realized I could get used to driving a luxury sports car pretty darn quick. I really should have been born into royalty.

Tiffany Snow

#8. How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss?

Bob Marley

#9. Did you hear him ' do not concern yourselves'.

Page Morgan

#10. The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Aristotle.

#11. To me soldiers had appeared to become younger as the war went on, and Rudy was no exception to this [ ... ]. And like so many of them now he looked, without his helmet, like a child dressed up as a soldier.

Michael Morpurgo

#12. To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns.

Frank Gaffney

#13. It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

Stephen Sondheim

#14. It's a Secret of Adulthood: I can't make people change, but when I change, others may change; and when others change, I may change.

Gretchen Rubin