Duponte Aqha Quotes & Sayings

A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe the doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position. — Murray Rothbard

If someone lied to you, and you positively know this is true, you may find delight in telling them they are the most honest person you know; continue flattering them, giving them the most wonderful compliments, including how you're so thankful to have such an honest person in such a deceptive world. But, then again, this may very well make you a liar too. — K.R. Royal

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? — C.S. Lewis

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species. — Louise J. Kaplan

The objective observer always has the advantage over a direct participant. — Vadim Zeland

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story. — Liu Cixin

Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth. — Oh Land

He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings. — Virginia Woolf

It's hard to say where a story begins and ends. You have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. Somewhere between perception and reality. Between what is spoken and what is heard. Between what is written and what is edited out. I know this, you can't have an ending without a beginning. Even if they are really just random pieces of the middle that tend to stand out. Staccato notes on the page. Points on a circle. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color. — Tyra Banks

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it's a big thing — Gene Baur