Gurgel Tocantins Quotes & Sayings

But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God he was going to have his say on it to the world. Saints in heaven - how could they be anything but fair and pure? No praise to them. But saints in slime - ah, that was the everlasting wonder! That was what made life worth while. To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud- dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment. — Jack London

Hope is the best part of our riches. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection. — Peter R. Grant

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. — Shakti Gawain

Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who could hear. 'I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful. — Stephenie Meyer

I'm completely at ease on a set. I'm pretty comfortable most places, but hitting the mark and knowing set etiquette and understanding cameras and lenses are second nature. It's a language I've spoken for years. — Zoe Bell

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. — Alan Bennett

If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You! — Michael R. Burch

I wear a taint of rationing, that's all. I have the thready, ashamed look of a reduced person who assumes there is a worse reduction to come. — Morag Joss

We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time. — Frank Laubach

Love is the ultimate form of recognition one grants to superlative values. — Ayn Rand

Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control. — Elizabeth Warren

Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been. — Ruth Ann Minner

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections. — Jaggi Vasudev