Carmelinda Marques Quotes & Sayings

I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT! — Megan Whalen Turner

Not "Forgive us for our sins" but "Smite us for our iniquities" should be the prayer of man to a most just God. — Oscar Wilde

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants) — Sara Gruen

As people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon. — Lauren DeStefano

I saw someone label me as a dubstep producer but I'm definitely not a dubstep producer. There's nothing wrong with that, though, because that's major. But it's like a school bus driver being labeled as a NASCAR driver. I would love to be a NASCAR driver, but I drive buses for a living. — AraabMuzik

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. — Milan Kundera

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. — Susan B. Anthony

My parents had always been accepting of homosexuals and had supported their fight to be treated as equals, but it was different when it was your own son. — Sloane Kennedy

I love freedom of speech. — George W. Bush

Why don't Fjerdans let girls fight?"
"They don't want to fight."
"How do you know? Have you ever asked one?"
"Fjerdan women are to be venerated, protected."
"That's probably a wise policy."
"It is?"
"Think how embarrassing it would be for you when you got trounced by a Fjerdan girl. — Leigh Bardugo

I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a ... means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic.
Granted, the church shouldn't be happy-clappy naive about life's struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week — Kevin DeYoung

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. — E.B. White