Asuntos Publicos Quotes & Sayings

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. — Sandra Cisneros

It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed hands out while all about in that circle attended companies of lesser auxiliaries routed forth into the inordinate day, small owls that crouched silently and stood from foot to foot and tarantulas and solpugas and vinegarroons and the vicious mygale spiders and beaded lizards with mouths black as a chowdog's, deadly to man, and the little desert basilisks that jet blood from their eyes and the small sandvipers like seemly gods, silent and the same, in Jeda, in Babylon. A constellation of ignited eyes that edged the ring of light all bound in a precarious truce before this torch whose brightness had set back the stars in their sockets. — Cormac McCarthy

God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true the third would be false. But at the same time all three are essential parts of most theological positions: the theologian it seems, at once must adhere and cannot consistently adhere to all three. — J. L. Mackie

A lonely tree in the desert shares the same fate with the wise man amongst the ignorant! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we met, I never thought in a million years that Will Smith and I would be together. — Jada Pinkett Smith

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy. — William A. Dembski

I am so freaked our right now, you could pull a clown out of my ass and I wouldn't be at all surprised — John Green

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors. — Charles De Gaulle

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion. — Rick Pitino

You cannot conquer the future if you are imprisoned in the past. — Matshona Dhliwayo