Paciencia Quotes

#1. Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

Miguel De Cervantes

#2. The oldest woman in the village, Paciencia,
predicts the weather from the flight of birds:
Today it will rain toads, she says,
squinting her face into a mystery of wrinkles
as she reads the sky - tomorrow,
it will be snakes.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

#3. I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

Douglas Bader

#4. Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one].

Dada Bhagwan

#5. I have already released my financials, which are massive, and, by the way, which showed a tremendous company. It's over $10 billion in net worth that I have built with a very, very small starter loan years ago.

Donald Trump

#6. Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

Paul Wolfowitz

#7. People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent ... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

Jonathan Gottschall

#8. The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.

Patti Smith

#9. I feel most beautiful at night, when I take my makeup off and it's just me.

Ashley Greene

#10. All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

George Will

#11. My heroes were always soccer players.

Ronaldinho

#12. You need some inequality to grow ... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions.

Thomas Piketty

#13. What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

Bob Beauprez

#14. There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion of their running still flickered on the dry wind - tawny, great, and quickly gone. Sometimes the honey-colored moon shivered to the silence of a ghost-roar on the rising air.

Russell Hoban

#15. Fraugh!" cried the sleeper, as though he suddenly understood all.
"Braugh!" he cried, not liking at all what he suddenly understood.
"Sup-foe!" he said, saying in no uncertain terms what he was going to do about it.
"Floof!" he cried.

Kurt Vonnegut