Felipe González

Verified author @Reader1994, member from July 21, 2022

Academic.
Literature.
Books.
Movies.

“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

“Speak low, if you speak love.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Duchess of Padua

“Pultes Scotorum.”

John Scotus Eriugena (810–877) Irish theologian

Irish porridge.

Verdict of the Fourth Council of Valence, 855, on his De Divina Praedestinatione, cited from Ferdinand Christian Baur Die christliche Kirche des Mittelalters in den Haupmomenten ihrer Entwicklung (Tübingen: Fues, 1861) p. 56; translation from Andrew Gibson James Joyce (London: Reaktion, 2006) p. 62.
Criticism

“I wish I had no heart, it aches so…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

“I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry,

“Two are better than one if two act as one. If you believe that two acting as one are better than one, just imagine what an entire team acting as one can do.”

Mike Krzyzewski (1947) American basketball player and coach

“This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.”

Sarah Strohmeyer Smart Girls Get What They Want

Source: Smart Girls Get What They Want

“(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag…a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag…I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Quoted in The New Yorker, October 2006. According to writer Ian Parker, this was Hitchens' response to a dinner-party guest who made a favourable comment about Howard Dean. Parker states that Hitchens appeared heavily drunk at the time.
2000s, 2006