shakira quotes

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer



If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. ~Sigmund Freud



No matter how far in or out of the closet you are, you still have a next step. ~Author Unknown



I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892



A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. ~John Holmes



Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. ~Aaron Copland



God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Author Unknown



Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld



Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. ~James Russell Lowell



Television is a gold goose that lays scramble eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. ~Lee Loevinger



Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris



God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying



Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. ~Steven Wright



Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights. ~Author Unknown



Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. ~Frank Zappa



Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. ~Albert Einstein



Pearls around the neck - stones upon the heart. ~Hanan J. Ayalti, Yiddish Proverbs, 1949



I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. ~D.H. Lawrence



Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~T.S. Eliot