Edilce Muniz Quotes & Sayings

And isn't this hard when we ourselves are always at the beginning of ourselves? — Joseph McElroy

For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious. — Richard Greenberg

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes. — Olaf Stapledon

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat. — Nicolas Berggruen

Easy writings curse is hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice. — Dominique Bouhours

Rain in the dump makes water filthy. Rain in the garden cleanses. — Camron Wright

You can't eliminate your past but you don't have to be controlled by it. — Sylvain Reynard

Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him. — J.K. Rowling

I always say this to the young chefs and mean it: The customer is excited, he says you are an artist, but we are not, just craftspeople with a little talent. If the chef is an artist, he doesn't succeed. Why? Because he is inspired today but not tomorrow. We cannot do that. — Andre Soltner

Most men gamble with [Fortune], and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best approach to religious codes that have become rigid and absolute is to acknowledge their arbitrariness and use them, if we use them at all, as a private discipline for ordering our own chaos. When they are proclaimed as the bearer of absolute and unchanging truth, defended in the traditional way, they enslave the human spirit rather than protect it from its own excesses. Jesus' vision burned through the external systems to the anxious human heart that lay beneath them and called for its transformation into a perfection of love. — Richard Holloway

God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul. — William Gurnall