Old Trinidadian Quotes & Sayings

Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up. — Mitch Albom

People fear death even more than they fear pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. — Jim Morrison

Love can destroy you.
Love can erase you.
Love can heal you.
Love can reinvent you,
And, if you are lucky enough,
Love can make you whole again.
That's what Cathy has done to me. — Mia Asher

I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country ... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force. — Alan Lightman

'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls. — Craig Shirley

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead. — Robert Herrick

It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter. — John Updike

God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do - what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins. — Joe Wurzelbacher

The fantasy of justice is more interesting than the fantasy of fairies, and truly more fantastic. — Terry Pratchett

Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin. — Mark Driscoll

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. — Pope Benedict XVI

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness — Rumi

If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail. — Rand Paul