Adivet Quotes & Sayings

You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant. — Mark Driscoll

Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most ... he saw fireflies where there were none. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

What led to September 11 is that most decision makers in the White House thought like you. They supported despotic regimes in the Middle East to multiply the profits of oil and arms companies, and armed violence escalated and reached our shores. — Alaa Al Aswany

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by. — Berkeley Breathed

There is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false. — George Lakoff