Madruga Quotes & Sayings

Deeds are stronger than words, and children are not biblical scholars. As long as they see girls and women treated as inferior by their faith, that's what they will learn, no matter what their holy book says. — Peter Wilkes

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life ... I can't dispute it. — Bill Bryson

There are millions of stars, each one shining and burning out at the same time. They die like everything else - you have to appreciate them before they're gone — Anna Carey

The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents. — W.C. Fields

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world ... — Dean Koontz

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. — Thomas Frank

I want to be mated to you. I want to get to know you. I want to create something long lasting. There's such a thing as instinct, and mine tells me you're the one. You and me. — Milly Taiden

Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur ... These factors
the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion that travel signifies autonomy and is a means for demonstrating what one 'really' is independent of one context or set of defining associations
remain the characteristics of the modern conception of travel.
Eric Leed — Robin Jarvis

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming. — Fred Reed

I have played lots of clubs since I was 14, but I always did my own music. — Vonda Shepard

The only rule Muslims know is to win. It does not matter how. All rules can be broken as long as they win the war. They can lie, they can deceive, they can break their treaties as Muhammad did, they can ambush or use terror, assassinate, massacre the children and bomb civilians. Muslims can even kill each other as long as this improves their chance of winning. — Ali Sina