Matavao Quotes & Sayings

Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub. — Dean Koontz

Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college. — P. J. O'Rourke

The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist. — John Le Carre

It is your minds that are moving. — Huineng

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. — Madison Cawein

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat. — Youssou N'Dour

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law. — Sergei Lavrov

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. — Marc Chagall

Then a Samaritan, an outcast from Jewish society, passed, saw the beaten man, and stopped. He bandaged the man's wounds and, after taking him to an inn on the Samaritan's own donkey, paid the innkeeper for his care. This poignant story offered a revolutionary teaching. The behavior it showed - and held up as expected of Christians - moved well beyond the limitations of ritual or bureaucratic law to the benefit of all people. This was not only timely for the burgeoning Christian communities, but essential. — Alexander John Shaia

Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write. — Robin M. Helm

Carry your wings of hope so high in the sky that there is no room left for disappointments. — Heenashree Khandelwal

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. — Ian McEwan

These summer nights are short. Going to bed before midnight is unthinkable and talk, wine, moonlight and the warm air are often in league to defer it one, two or three hours more. It seems only a moment after falling asleep out of doors that dawn touches one gently on the shoulder, and, completely refreshed, up one gets, or creeps into the shade or indoors for another luxurious couple of hours. The afternoon is the time for real sleep: into the abyss one goes to emerge when the colours begin to revive and the world to breathe again about five o'clock, ready once more for the rigours and pleasures of late afternoon, the evening, and the night. — Patrick Leigh Fermor

Jesus said, But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. — Pat Schneider

Ah, Colorado: the one place in America where people wake up earlier on weekends than workdays. — Mark Obmascik