Tiangco Irineo Quotes

#1. For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.

Rene Dubos

#3. There's something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they're in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they're called crabs.

Jen Sincero

#4. I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

Michael Dirda

#5. Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

Elizabeth I

#6. Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

Yehuda Amichai

#7. Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Erich Fromm

#8. Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow ...

Paul Gauguin

#9. I curse the day starvation became a commonly accepted diet for women.

Nicole Williams

#10. The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. It may be bliss not to know a tornado is coming because you have no need to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand your bum is in the air, the tornado is still coming.

David Icke

#12. The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.

Thomas Mann

#13. There are no mistakes in life!

Oprah Winfrey