Cleide Lopes Quotes & Sayings

Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see. — Al-Ghazali

It washed over me for the first time in my life how much importance the world had ascribed to skin pigment, how lately it seemed that skin pigment was the sun and everything else in the universe was the orbiting planets. Ever since school let out this summer, it had been nothing but skin pigment every livelong day. I was sick of it. — Sue Monk Kidd

Thirteen years ago, I found myself professionally in the same "dark wood" described by Dante in the introduction to The Inferno. For the — Bloomberg Press

I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. When I give my heart, I give myself totally. — Jiah Khan

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. — Bill Vaughan

How good life is when one does something good and just! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves. — William Shakespeare

Bible's Song of Solomon, "Love is strong as death." Or perhaps even stronger. — Esther Earl

We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you. — Timothy Keller

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963] — John F. Kennedy

Both tend to speak of national security as though it were still capable of being dissociated from universal well-being; in fact, sometimes in these political addresses it sounds as though this nation, or any nation, through force of character or force of arms, could damn well rise above planetary considerations, as though we were greater than our environment, as though the national verve somehow transcended the natural world. — E.B. White

One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it. — Ralph Marston

Pride the first peer and president of hell. — Daniel Defoe

I know, in my soul, that a love for travel is a gift and not a hindrance. It feels like a burden when the bucket list is bigger than the bank account, but a thirst for more of the world is not something to apologize for. Denying its presence feels like denying something good in me, something God put there. Wanderlust has a reputation as the epitome of unrequited love, something the young and naive chase after because they don't yet realize it's as futile as a dog chasing its tail. Turns out, ever-burning wanderlust is a good thing. — Tsh Oxenreider