Connotaciones Quotes & Sayings

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

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. — Freeman Dyson

The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize. — Jos. A. Smith

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. — Diogenes

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully. — Mahatma Gandhi

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. — Jack Schwartz

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention. — Kiki Dee

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life. — Jon Katz

Considering what Adam went through to appreciate Eve to the utmost, I wondered how beautiful it is that you and I were created to need each other. The romantic need is just the beginning, because we need our families and we need our friends. In this way, we are made in God's image. Certainly God does not need people in the way you and I do, but He feels a joy at being loved, and He feels a joy at delivering love. It is a stinking thought to realize that, in paradise, a human is incomplete without a host of other people. We are relational indeed. And the Bible, with all its understanding of the relational needs of humans, was becoming more meaningful to me as I turned the pages. God made me, He knows me, He understands me, and He wants community. — Donald Miller

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me. — Victoria Laurie