Otavio Mesquita Quotes & Sayings

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself. — Henry Clay Trumbull

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God ... or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience. — Leo Tolstoy

In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China. — Sheryl WuDunn

I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world. — Peter Matthiessen

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. — George Saunders

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people. — Paulo Freire

I came from a big family ... a big family of Southerners. — Blake Lively

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work. — Sharon Olds

Now here's the thing about being a little off-center; you're never sure if you're a bona fide loon or if you have insight that other people don't have.You have to navigate through life using a kind of psychic gyroscope to keep from falling too far one way or another, and you feel a peculiar kinship with other people who are also a little bit off-center. — Blaize Clement

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded. — George Galloway

As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism. — David Shi

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded. — Douglas Wood