Ciprestes Quotes & Sayings

In the end, there was you, and that made it all worth it — Penelope Ward

I don't understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians ...
it's a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it's not who you love ...
a man, a woman, what have you ...
it's the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters. — Al Pacino

I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn. — John Steinbeck

Your people will not love you if you take from them the gods they have always worshiped, and give them one whose very name sounds queer on their tongues. — George R R Martin

Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate itself. Desacralization is a process that allows us to sever any relationship we might feel to other living things. By draining the aliveness out of things, we can pretend that our control and manipulation are of little consequence. Man the trapper becomes man the taxidermist, disemboweling nature of its spontaneity and movement, and stuffing it with a leaden inanimateness. — Jeremy Rifkin

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse." — Justin Torres

Because I don't really want to fall in love. Nathan is safe because he's unattainable. — Will McIntosh

Any system of world order, to be sustainable, must be accepted as just - not only by leaders, but also by citizens. It must reflect two truths: order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace. Order and freedom, sometimes described as opposite poles on the spectrum of experience, should instead be understood as interdependent. Can today's leaders rise above the urgency of day-to-day events to achieve this balance? — Henry Kissinger

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door. — Thomas Secker

Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work. — James Heckman

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. — William Shakespeare

Luther labeled as theologies of glory all distortions of the Gospel that would promise the Christian elements of glory in this life if he will perfect or offer spiritual things that deserve God's favor. — Steven A. Hein