Subsuelo Agricola Quotes

#1. You ... you are so ... ' She couldn't even think of a suitable word.
'I know. Woefully primitive.' Laughter threaded through his voice. 'But I must be tolerated, because I'm a man and I really can't help it.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

Pete Rose

#3. Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

Pema Chodron

#4. Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

Imre Lakatos

#5. Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.

Pankaj Mishra

#6. This is the crux of Christianity: to remember and give thanks, 'eucharisteo'.

Ann Voskamp

#7. I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

Celia Rivenbark

#8. I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

PJ Harvey

#9. This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

John Doar

#11. In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

Nia Vardalos