On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.
Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
[...] hacía tiempo que había comprendido que el amor era traicionero. Podía transformar el mundo de cielo en infierno en un instante, y al instante seguiente volver a tranformarlo en sentido contrário, y asi ad infinitum.
A tercer d'ESO, la distància entre ells i elles arriba al màxim. La distància física, però sobretot la mental. Ells criden, s'empenten i escupen a terra com nens grans. Elles parlen, es mouen i es vesteixen com dones petites.
¿Qué es una vida de verdad? ¿Cuando vas a la escuela? ¿Cuando tienes trabajo?¿Cuando vas al trabajo y dejas a tus hijos en la escuela? ¿Cuando tienes las suficientes fotos para llenar un álbum? Cuando puede contarla, supongo.
Die Intuition ließe sich als die Intelligenz des Unterbewusstseins bezeichnen. Die Intelligenz des Unterbewusstseins ist ein schnelles und völlig müheloses Denken, während die bewusste Intelligenz ein anstrengendes und mitunter langwieriges...
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniousl...
Non riusciva a ricordare da dove fosse venuto, e adesso che era alla fine non sapeva dove sarebbe andato. Ma al tempo in mezzo poteva guardare senza rimpianti, con un’ampia risata e un’unica, grande meraviglia
Pero las cuestiones humanas no conducían a conclusiones tajantes, al trazado de una línea ni a una suma total. Parecían resolverse, disolverse, cuando sólo se estaban formando de nuevo, reuniéndose en otra combinación. Incluso cuando estamos mu...
There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently. By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.
Beauty is a blind alley. It is a mountain peak which once reached leads nowhere […] Beauty is that which satisfies the aesthetic instinct. But who wants to be satisfied? It is only to the dullard that enough is as good as a feast. Let us face it: b...
Explain to me again why we’re at a whorehouse?” Gwenvael sighed around his ale. “Because, my thick-headed brother, if you want information about human men then you go to the one place all human men come to eventually.
A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a social disease of a most destructive nature.
Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.
Por supuesto que la paz es el respeto al derecho ajeno, en eso todos estamos de acuerdo. En lo que nadie está de acuerdo es en cuál es el derecho ajeno.
The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of Canon, however they were neither paper-like nor mere 'pellets'." ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Non dovresti essere immune al freddo, visto che vieni dalla Siberia?» "Non credo che la Siberia sia come la immagini." "Io la immagino come un deserto artico" risposi sincera. "Appunto, non è decisamente come la immagini.
Aceste statistici, obsesiv prezentate prin toate canalele, nu reprezintă altceva decât un indicator al nivelului de control din țările respective!
- Eres bonita -dijo Raúl-. Más aún de lo que pueda parecer a primera vista. Tienes una belleza escondida, que sólo puede conocerse al cabo de un gran rato de verte, de hablarte.
