Tradiciones Venezolanas Quotes

Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy. ~ Dawn Powell

This man had also spent time in a chair, in a dark room, staring at a wall. We tried to remember how it happens, the giving up: how the mind turns on itself and pinions the body to furniture and then convinces you that it is the furniture that has pinioned your mind. The furniture, or the girlfriend, or the husband, with their supernatural ability to cause your feelings. But it is so hard to remember the demonic logic of the place. For our friends we should remember, when they think they're stuck with sadness forever and we're trying to shine some small light on the way out. ~ Kristin Dombek

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions. ~ John Cole

You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about. ~ Barack Obama

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. ~ Socrates

Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal one passes from the natural attitude of the scientist to the transcendental phenomenological attitude (which, according to phenomenology, is the properly philosophical attitude). ~ Evan Thompson

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us. ~ Dolly Parton

The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win. ~ Martina Hingis

Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found. ~ Huineng