Paunovo Quotes & Sayings

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. — Noam Chomsky

There is a difference between really being concerned about service delivery and incompetence and just complaining for the sake of it. — Zelda La Grange

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I understand in the past, some in government have said government cannot stand side-by-side with people of faith. Let me put it more bluntly, government can't spend money on religious programs simply because there's a rabbi on the board, cross on the wall, or a crescent on the door. I viewed this as not only bad social policy - because policy by-passed the great works of compassion and healing that take place - I viewed it as discrimination. — George W. Bush

My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!' — Amber Le Bon

The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say, "Then was then, now is now", is ultimately immature. Knowing and judging past events is the only way to build a meaningful future. Memory is necessary for growth. — Pope Francis

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant. — Jonathan Haidt

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. — Amelia Barr

The Lord is not only tender and merciful and full of compassion, but He is also the God of justice, holiness and wrath ... Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness. What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die. God cannot clear the guilty until atonement is made. Mercy is what we need and that is what we receive at the foot of the cross. — Billy Graham

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. — Diane Lane

I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer! — Bayard Taylor

Everything bad that ever happened to him happened because he couldn't read. — Toni Morrison

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. — Benjamin Franklin