Pedregosos Quotes & Sayings

The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children. — Diane Ackerman

No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed. — Judith Spencer

I believed in my heart that despite politics, the United States would always do the right thing. My mind believed different, so I had made it sit quietly in the corner. — Patrick Thomas

The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that responsibility is no greater for him than was that of Notharctus or Eohippus or a trilobite, each in his own day, but because of man's unique abilities it is the greatest responsibility that has ever rested upon any of the earth's offspring. — Kirtley F. Mather

He is commanded to be strong, with his only equipment the Word of God and implicit obedience to it! Such was Christ's equipment. — Jessie Penn-Lewis

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world — Oswald J. Smith

I hope to enjoy however many days I have on this beautiful Earth and spend as much of it outside as I can surrounded by those I love. — Brittany Maynard

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work ... get into it because we have good taste. — Ira Glass

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship ... It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness ... But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive. — Philip Yancey

You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they've done, and causing hurt, but that is a fact of life, and if we weren't full of emotion, we'd be automatons, and I don't think people want us to be that. — David Blunkett

I think he was worried about pushing things too far for the time being since I was obviously rocking a first-class ticket to certifiable insanity. — Jennifer L. Armentrout