Sesta Quotes

#1. It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.

Ann Patchett

#2. What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

#3. I do YouTube my cars a lot.

T-Pain

#4. My thoughts kept straying onto random paths ... hoping to get lost in a thicket.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

Felix Dennis

#6. Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows her and Aline Stah. Perhaps, he said, pressing her arm with his elbow. But it is better to do good so that, ask whom you will, no one knows anything about it.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Al Franken

#8. If God were an object to the bird, he would be a winged being[.]

Ludwig Feuerbach

#9. My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

Ted Olson

#10. You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

Meda Chesney-Lind

#12. I'm 25, but I was a kid on the set. But everybody was really great.

Shane West

#13. Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

John C. Reilly