Carulla Medellin Quotes & Sayings

Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement." "I wonder if they are lost and alone?" "I wonder if they will ever have a body?" "I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine?" Alas, brothers and sisters, "wickedness never was happiness" (Alma 41:10). — Neal A. Maxwell

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom — Mencius

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve. — Tara Mohr

The guards had asked the Doctor to please wait in the hallway until Mr McCavity had time to see him. So it seemed only polite, the Doctor thought, to wait until they had gone before he wandered off to explore the house. — Justin Richards

In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has never been and never will be, nor is it now, what is known as a straight line, never, never, to put it strongly and emphatically in response to any doubts, to silence them once and for all. — Jose Saramago

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does. — John Hickenlooper

If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem. — Robert Maxwell

I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on. — Patrick Stump

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why — Jennifer Lawrence

In the end he slunk out of Normandy in December 1203, like a thief in the night. — David Carpenter