"Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish."

-- Robert E. Howard

#Rome Quotes #Peachy Quotes

“How vast a memory has Love!”
“Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.”
“I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.”
“We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.”
“What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?”
“The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.”

Source : Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”
“I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.”

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