Capcioso Portugues Quotes & Sayings

Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed. — Eugene Kennedy

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers. — Upton Sinclair

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. — Patrick Campbell

People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work. — Maya Angelou

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour. — Edward Gibbon

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,
misery. — William C. Bryant

No." Allie stood her ground. "I'll not go in."
"Me, neither." Jason slid from his horse. "If Allie ain't going in, I'm not going in."
Wes glanced skyward. How was it possible for his near mute wife to pick up an echo? After four years in the Army, leading men, and two years of pushing cattle to market, it took Allie to make Wes realize that a leader wasn't a leader unless he had a follower.
"All right, where would you like to sleep tonight? — Jodi Thomas

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. — Erich Fromm

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones. — Jennifer Weiner

It is a shedding of all else and an acknowledgement of the wilderness we are part of. And as the exhilaration slowly subsides, it often slips into a more indistinct yet cerebral, even hallowed realm."
- DAVID ATCHESON
The Liberty Project, Enjoying the spirit and protecting the nature of the Alaskan wilderness — Dave Atcheson

Sorry, I said. There was little healing power in the word, but maybe the Inspectre wasn't looking to heal. Maybe he didn't want someone to fix it. It had been broken too long for me to think anything I said would actually help. It was like trying to put a Band-Aid on a shark bite. Sometimes people just needed to vent and get it out of their system. — Anton Strout

I want you with me, my dearest. Not just as a friend, though also as that. I want you as my wife. I want to know that we share our lives and cares, we share our health and ill, and we share our happiness and sorrow. — Aleksandra Layland

The love of wine is a good man's failing. — Aristophanes