Daraus Bukenya Quotes & Sayings

As had been the case in the founding of Citizens Alert in 1965, the point that most linked gay politics to the struggles of other marginalized communities was that of state violence - in particular, police brutality. — Christina B. Hanhardt

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument. — David Crystal

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry. — Rudolph A. Marcus

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. — Cameron Crowe

I know, I think to myself, wishing she could read me. I know and it's okay. I've got you. I want to protect her. I want her under my arm, under my wing. And I don't ever want to let her go. — Karina Halle

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

Love teaches us peace, freedom and humanity. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

There is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. — Karen Armstrong

MEXICAN PURPLE Although the source of this exclusive dye was long a Phoenician trade secret, by the time of the classical Greeks it was known to be manufactured from a gland of the murex sea snail. Surprisingly, while traveling in Mexico in the 1830s, Thomas Gage observed that traditional purple dye manufacture there used the same techniques to create dye from the same sea snails.95 — S.C. Compton

The Lord made what was once the desolation of the Palestine Mandate fertile again, as modern-day Israel, and if He so wills it, He will do the same for the Ilemi Triangle, for his own glory. The desert will bloom. — James Wesley, Rawles

God's true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit.

As if utterance fit into the requirements of the human mouth.

I learned how to find the new moon by looking for the circular absence of stars. [...]

I learned God's true language is only silence and breath. — Kazim Ali

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. — Karl Kraus

Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins. — Richard Jeni

The Church's roots are in the teaching of the apostles, the authentic witnesses of Christ, but she looks to the future, she has the firm consciousness of being sent - sent by Jesus - of being missionary, bearing the name of Jesus by her prayer, proclaiming it and testifying to it. A Church that is closed in on herself and in the past, a Church that only sees the little rules of behavior, of attitude, is a Church that betrays her own identity; a closed Church betrays her own identity! Then, let us rediscover today all the beauty and responsibility of being the Church apostolic! And remember this: the Church is apostolic because we pray - our first duty - and because we proclaim the Gospel by our life and by our words. — Pope Francis

Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness. — Gustave Flaubert