Devenuto Quotes & Sayings

The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the fact that it is rarely articulated, but usually remains smoldering and silent. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping. — Mahatma Gandhi

Pornography is certainly more beautiful than eroticism. Eroticism is ugly. Eroticism is an ideology... there is nothing more boring than eroticism, it's worse than poetry, even. I say three cheers for pornography. — Pierre Guyotat

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know. — Charlotte Bronte

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. — Empedocles

He took a long time to answer. I asked which of her brothers had fathered the baby. She told me it could have been either. — Sandra Brown

They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have. — Frederick Lenz