Eufemismos Quotes & Sayings

For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches ... I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did. — Malcolm X

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. — Laurence Housman

His smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema with starlight, pure and bright...his touch hummed in my bones like an aria -- a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise. — Roshani Chokshi

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist. — Audrey Meadows

Men of God are not just born, they are formed — John Paul Warren

You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me. — Elvin Jones

Reading the very best writers - let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy - is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight. — Harold Bloom

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth. — Juhani Pallasmaa

In each moment may you see clearly, rest deeply, love sweetly, and live from the truth of your being. — Indigo Ocean

The flicker of a girl appeared; a tiny shape with huge, brown eyes I would never mistake, not even in death. — Jayde Scott

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.' — Debbi Peterson

Say what you see and you experience yourself through your style of seeing and saying. — Mark Doty

A presence is made of the tiniest things. I sweep you up softly. You stayed too long. How is it you fly with every good intention. — Farrah Field

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. — Richard Henry Dana Jr.