Gumabao Family Quotes & Sayings

We measure poverty by what I believe is a very, very crude concept. We actually measure poverty by trying to get some kind of an estimate of the minimum expenditures on food that are required to maintain health, multiplying that number by three, and saying that's the level of poverty. And it's a very crude, inaccurate arrangement. — Milton Friedman

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. — A.W. Tozer

In a false person, sacraments do not produce any effect. — Thomas Aquinas

Many people believe they know true darkness, but until it has been experienced it cannot be imagined. Without even a flicker of light, the mind begins to play tricks. There is a constant feeling that there is a wall before you, that you must stop. The eyes open as wide as they can, hungry for light. The only thing that helps is to shut them tight. — Joseph R. Lallo

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. — David Sarnoff

Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art. — Andre Malraux

So it had been me. Maybe I'd known that all along, and that was why I had run. Because I didn't show weakness: I didn't depend on anyone. And if he'd been like the others, and just let me go, I would have been fine. It would have been easy to go on conveniently forgetting as I kept my heart clenched tight, away from where anyone could get to it. — Sarah Dessen

Religious damage is worse than alcohol damage or drug damage — Sunday Adelaja

This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously - "
"Yes," Roger said. "She's the one. — Jennifer Crusie

Is this thing on? — Abby Stokes

I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out. — Howard Warren Buffett

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. — Lord Chesterfield

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains. — Al-Ma'arri

Finally she feels free - not perfect, not problem free, just free — Jill McCorkle