Patillas Charleston Quotes

#1. One cannot afford to be a realist.

Albert Bandura

#2. Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Auguste Rodin

#3. If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

David Suzuki

#4. I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.

Susan Hill

#5. People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!

Linda Masemore Pirrung

#6. There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.

H.L. Mencken

#7. Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

James Bryant Conant

#8. After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.

Bill Veeck

#9. A lot of people don't understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.

Janice Hahn

#10. She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I will find myself defending both her right to struggle and our obligation to remember.

Ariel Dorfman

#11. I want to hate you, to loathe you, to detest you, but for all my attempts, the need to touch you is ten times more powerful.

Nely Cab

#12. He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

Plato

#13. Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

William Zinsser

#14. Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott