Lagoa Santa Quotes & Sayings

Above even our physical well-being, a central value is keeping the state out of the private realm - our "persons, houses, papers, and effects," as the Fourth Amendment puts it. We do so precisely because that realm is the crucible of so many of the attributes typically associated with the quality of life - creativity, exploration, intimacy. — Glenn Greenwald

As a wife you don't question. By doing as you're told, you're relieved of the responsibility of decisions.[...]It's a blessing. Don't you agree? — Aleatha Romig

How peculiar. Perhaps it's a programming glitch." She stared down into Iko's single sensor. "A programming glitch." "Sure. You have programming, don't you?" Iko lifted a spindly arm and gestured toward Cinder's steel prosthetic. "I have a glitch, too. Sometimes I forget that I'm not human. I don't think that happens to most androids." Cinder — Marissa Meyer

For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and will not have to struggle. Financially, perhaps that is true; but as far as chess goes, I'm still learning a lot! — Viswanathan Anand

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation. — Sam Harris

To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness. — C.S. Lewis

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy. — Theodore Isaac Rubin

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless. — Erwin McManus

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart. — Margery Allingham

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model ... — Henri Matisse

Nothing can destroy your inner peace except your uncontrolled thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

What if you believed that those characteristics that the beige army (or an 8-year-old kid) say are 'too weird' are the very things that deserve to be treasured? — Marianne Cantwell

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. — James Hutton