Dissidents In Cuba Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God. — Kedar Joshi

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime. — Mel Martinez

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. — Ayn Rand

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. — David Bowie

In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like. — Peter York

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything. — Lucinda Williams

I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself. — Kavita Kane

And in the end,
she left a scar
and I knew that was
how she wanted to
be remembered.

She wanted to leave
her mark in the
world
without getting
her heart too
attached to it. — Robert M. Drake

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy. — Eugene H. Peterson

It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might as well say that our legs are of pagan origin. Nobody ever disputed that humanity was human before it was Christian; and no Church manufactured the legs with which men walked or danced, either in a pilgrimage or a ballet. What can really be maintained, so as to carry not a little conviction, is this: that where such a Church has existed it has preserved not only the processions but the dances; not only the cathedral but the carnival. One of the chief claims of Christian civilisation is to have preserved things of pagan origin. — G.K. Chesterton

I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special. — Lupita Nyong'o