Penosamente Quotes & Sayings

Painting by Heinrich Hofmann The Prophet Joseph Smith — Joseph Smith Jr.

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment. — Mahatma Gandhi

The biggest thing right now is to know that I just didn't give up. It would have been the easiest thing for me to just go ahead and pull out of the tournament with what has been going on over the last week - just to be up there with my mum and support her. But I really wanted to come down here and play with Adam (Scott) and really try to win the World Cup and we achieved that which was great. — Jason Day

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up. — Nick Nolte

My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect. — Michael Jordan

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland

There is no department of practical politics
where idealistic theories are strong enough to
cause great changes; when great changes occur, the
theories which justify them are always a
camouflage for passion. And the passion that has
given driving force to democratic theories is
undoubtedly the passion of envy. — Bertrand Russell

My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God. — David Jeremiah

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. — Richard Powers

The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that. — Michel Patini

The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling. — James Purdy

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did. — Michael Korda

I'm scared to see myself in 3D. — Kevin McHale

Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council. — Tom Lantos