Abuilding4u Quotes & Sayings

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? — Nicolas Cage

Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on defense budgets would make a real difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives. — Desmond Tutu

Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth. — Janet Street-Porter

I see my life flashing before me when I see people in the audience singing along to something I wrote in the '80s, and they're maybe standing next to someone who knows the more recent stuff. — Dave Pirner

Boxing's an art, it's a science, and you don't go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to run into one of these bricks by mistake [looks at his fists], that's their fault. — Roy Jones Jr.

You cannot win if you cannot run. — Hank Stram

He was sentenced to six months in prison. He died there of pneumonia. So it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It's an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it's the soul
But it's not the soul: it's the animal or the man itself
In its way of existing. — Alberto Caeiro

You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence. — John Welwood

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry. — Paul Theroux

There is a psychospiritual disease of the soul that originates within ourselves and that has the potential to destroy our species or to wake us up, depending on whether or not we recognize what it is revealing to us. — Paul Levy

Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction ... — Jonathan Franzen