Miss Portinari Quotes & Sayings

Love does take. Loving someone takes strength. Love takes hard work. And sometimes ... Love takes sacrifice. I remember thinking, feeling the only thing worse than being with Drew was being without him. — Cambria Hebert

You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

But the point about spiritual fruit is that, however healthy the tree, it has to be looked after. — N. T. Wright

Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony spontaneously in the home. — David A. Bednar

Of course the teachers want you medicated. Most of them are monsters. They don't want you seeing them for what they are. — Rick Riordan

I'm glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago. — Alison Bechdel

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers. — Sam Donaldson

She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there. — William Gibson

Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands. It does not dissociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or usefulness and beauty. To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for. This is blasphemy: to make shoddy work of the work of God. But such blasphemy is not possible when the entire Creation is understood as holy and when the works of God are understood as embodying and thus revealing His spirit. (pg. 312, Christianity and the Survival of Creation) — Wendell Berry

We are our own aptest deceiver. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. — Nina Fedoroff

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Reference to the deadness of the past is a way of staking a claim on it. But historians must be open, as ethnographers try to be, to the shock of the unpredictability and difference of the past, which means open to the possibility of the past living in its insistence on telling its own story and so confounding us. Only in this way can the past teach us something new about ourselves, about the limits of our imaginings and ways of knowing, and even of our particular and distinctive ways of being human. — Robert A. Orsi

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy. — Robert Anton Wilson

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come. — Russell Johnson