Gerardo Ortiz Life Quotes & Sayings

Security is no replacement for liberty. — Martin Firrell

It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you. — Walter Savage Landor

Love is a battle lost before even begun. — Frederic Beigbeder

First of all, it's friendship with God that makes possible friendship with one another in a manner that is not that we just like one another, but that were are joined by common judgments, by God, for the good of God's church. Such friendship occurs not by trying to be each other's friend, but by discovering you were engaged in common good work that is so determinative, you cannot live without one another. Now, if the church is that, it will talk about friendship in a way that avoids the superficiality of the language of relationship. Because relationships are meant to be spontaneous and short. Friendship, if it is the friendship of God, is to be characterized by fidelity in which you are even willing to tell the friend the truth. Which may mean you will risk the friendship. You need to be in that kind of community to survive the loneliness that threatens all of our souls. — Stanley Hauerwas

Probably all of us have random rogue cancer cells floating around in our bodies but by and large, in the majority of cases, our immune system circulates and acts as a surveillance mechanism and kills off those few tumor cells. — Laurie Glimcher

(For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?) — Christopher Moore

I can forgo my lunch to get the book, I love to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge. — Bakunin

Democracy must learn to defend itself. — Mikhail Gorbachev

I can't help thinking
Suppose the world was made for happiness after all. — Elizabeth Bowen