Bergamini Jay Quotes & Sayings

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world. — Salman Rushdie

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side. — Norah Jones

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it. — Adoniram Judson

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so? — R. Scott Bakker

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better. — Henry Spencer

You should not follow me nor i should follow you. Cause if you or i did that, we will end up in the same place — Anthony Castillo

It is impossible to exercise free will as long as we are operating from within the system. Free will requires consciousness, and our pervasive and deep-seated patterns of thought are unconscious; they are outside of our awareness and therefore outside of our control. While we remain in the system, we see the world through the eyes of carnism. And as long as we look through eyes other than our own, we will be living in accordance to a truth that is not of our own choosing. We must step outside the system to find our lost empathy and make choices that reflect what we truly feel and believe, rather than what we've been taught to feel and believe. — Melanie Joy

You don't know me beyond my cock, Monroe. Don't pretend otherwise. — B.B. Reid

I've bled for you. I've killed for you. I've held you in my arms and done my best to make love to you. I'd give my life to protect you. Now I sit beside you, askin' you to trust me. — Pamela Clare

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see. — James Baldwin

Different people think of different versions of 'God' - a loving father or a fearful punishing ghoul. These are incompatible, irreconcilable - and you thought having 'one world religion' or 'one God' would unite humanity? — Christina Engela

Eugene has to stop doing God's job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being. — Nate Berkus

It's our version of "me" that causes us the most stress and heartache. Which is why it comes as a relief to discover that this version is as transient as a cloud in the sky. Focus on the cloud and the result is uncertain. Focus on the sky and we discover clarity. — David Michie

Look . . ." I dreaded female statements that started with "look." In my limited experience, there was nowhere to hide after they were made. — Craig Johnson