Niceforo Avila Quotes & Sayings

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence. — W. Somerset Maugham

Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job. — Larry Mullen Jr.

I don't like such "great questions" - my view is that life consists of a million little questions and that it is always only the totality of those that really matters. — Sandor Marai

VONNEGUT: I said that only one person on the entire planet benefited from the raid, which must have cost tens of millions of dollars. The raid didn't shorten the war by half a second, didn't weaken a German defense or attack anywhere, didn't free a single person from a death camp. Only one person benefited - not two or five or ten. Just one. INTERVIEWER: And who was that? VONNEGUT: Me. I got three dollars for each person killed. Imagine that. — Kurt Vonnegut

But by spring, she had again yielded to the tug and tide of his mind, allowing its currents to carry her back across the continent and wash them up on the remote shores of his evergreen island.. — Ruth Ozeki

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated. — John McCain

It is better to forget about yourself altogether. — C.S. Lewis

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. — Herbert Spencer

Family is everything. That is the creed in this country. But that creed gets others killed. And it slowly kills you. Your family is the first thing you'll lose. Your soul will be the last. — Karina Halle

Second, the Church itself is going to have to become more authentic morally, for the greatness of the Gospel is now seen to have become quite trivial and inconsequential in its life. If the Gospel means so little to the Church, if it changes so little, why then should unbelievers believe it? — David F. Wells