Kelepi Tuavao Quotes & Sayings

The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange. — Ludwig Von Mises

This entire ordeal taught me a valuable lesson. People are important-not things. I was no longer keeping up with the Joneses, material things or lots of money; that mattered very little to me. Life isn't about having, is about being. — Silvia Corradin

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms. — William Rounseville Alger

wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. She — Veronica Roth

What do I call you when I'm making love to you? When I'm fucking you so deep you'll lose your mind?"

~Ryan — Sydney Croft

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable ... — George Orwell

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me. — Alexa Chung

You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of years later. Most bones or most tools rot or get buried and are never found again. — Steven Pinker

Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars.
A million suns. — Beth Revis

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. — Stephen Greenblatt

If you despise your people,
you will disregard them.
If you hate your people,
you will harm them.
If you esteem your people,
you will serve them.
If you love your people,
you will even die for them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation. — Tamora Pierce

I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people-but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need. — Frances Moore Lappe

A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover. — Bell Hooks

I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word. — John Piper