Osobina Zeca Quotes & Sayings

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. — Peter Shaffer

Accepting a religion may be more like enjoying a poem, or following the football. It might be a matter of immersion in a set of practices. Perhaps the practices have only an emotional point, or a social point. Perhaps religious rituals only serve necessary psychological and social ends. The rituals of birth, coming of age, or funerals do this. It is silly to ask whether a marriage ceremony is true or false. People do not go to a funeral service to hear something true, but to mourn, or to begin to stop mourning, or to meditate on departed life. It can be as inappropriate to ask whether what is said is true as to ask whether Keats's ode to a Grecian urn is true. The poem is successful or not in quite a different dimension, and so is Chartres cathedral, or a statue of the Buddha. They may be magnificent, and moving, and awe-inspiring, but not because they make statements that are true or false. — Simon Blackburn

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential. — Joanna Macy

I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt. — David Levithan

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents. — Oswald Chambers

The others down by the melon bed. Nagaina spun clear round, — Rudyard Kipling

Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent. — Ellen P. Lacter

They are our brothers, these freedom fighters ... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong. — Ronald Reagan