Bonfim Ementa Quotes & Sayings

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. — Abraham Lincoln

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. — John Muir

I think one of the beauties so far of the so-called Spirit of Seattle is there aren't any leaders, pop stars, or guru figures that everyone else is falling in line with and following. No [Nelson] Mandela, Havel, or Subcomandante Ski Mask riding in on a white horse and everybody else just wanting to follow them to the promised land. We're stitching it together and doing it ourselves. — Jello Biafra

Mark shook Trina awake and scrambled to his feet, pulling her up with him. The Toad was definitely sick, and he was standing just a few feet from their camp. They didn't know anything about this sickness, but that only made it scarier. Trina seemed disoriented, but Mark didn't relent, half dragging her to the other side of the dead coals of their fire from earlier that night. "Alec!" he shouted. "Lana! Wake up!" As if the two were still soldiers, — James Dashner

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds. — Tucker Max

Perseverance. Force of purpose. Indomitable will. Those traits were once uniquely part of the American DNA. But they've been weakening for some time. — Ryan Holiday

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner

Then Christianity isn't really opposed to science," offered Anne cautiously. "No, it isn't opposed to science at all," concluded Melchizedek. "On the contrary, it motivates the examination of everything that God has created. But it also urges us to be morally prepared for the power that arises with that knowledge. And that's a lesson human beings are far from grasping. — Jeffrey Tiel

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them. — Brian Eno

First Heart Beats for Love, Second Heart Beats for Life — Santosh Avvannavar

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping. — Carlos Mencia

I'm surprised you agreed to let me pour the wine. — Scott Lynch

A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this. — Anthony Doerr

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea. — Harrison Birtwistle