Leitao Cru Quotes & Sayings

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop. — George W. Bush

NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

God has called us out of darkness into His marvellous light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on the step. No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. I will light a fire in the cool evenings and toast apples at my own hearth. I will raise white cats and sew white curtains for the windows and sometimes come out of my door to go to the store to buy cinnamon and tea and thread. People will come to me to have their fortunes told, and I will brew love potions for sad maidens; I will have a robin ... — Shirley Jackson

Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away. — Peter Hessler

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize. — W. H. Auden

Liberal humanism, which is still the dominant discourse in Western societies, assumes the unitary nature of the subject and conscious subjectivity. It insists on establishing the appearance of unity from moments of subjectivity which are often contradictory. To be inconsistent in our society is to be unstable. Yet the appearance of the unitary subject, based as it is on primary structures of misrecognition of the self as authorial source of meaning, is precarious, easily disrupted and open to change. — Chris Weedon

He liked the staccato beat of the rain drumming on the roof of the carving shed. — R.J. Harlick

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring. — Jason Statham

One eats in holiness and the table becomes an altar. Martin Buber — Sylvia Shaw Judson

I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what. — Douglas Coupland

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

In the end, it makes no difference who you are. It's friends that count. — Rachel Joyce

I try to make a lot of time for friends and family because I think that's really important and for pleasurable experiences. — Zoe Lister-Jones

Service is a promise that cannot be seen, touched, or felt through any of our external senses. — Jag Randhawa