Pgina Recados Quotes & Sayings

It is our contemporary culture's tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffering something to be avoided at all cost. We consider the equation between evil and suffering so self-evident that we make avoiding suffering the equal of fighting evil. No wonder we are the most narcotized generation ever to inhabit the earth, searching for ever more effective addictive patterns to anaesthetize our existence. — Luke Timothy Johnson

The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract. There's no kind of, "Oh, let's do Peru," or "Let's do pleats," you know? — Rei Kawakubo

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. — Evan Sayet

Lily kept her smile. She knew a little something about loss and what it was all about in the end. She searched for her answers in those items left behind. — Jack Bates

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address, whatever you call it. — George W. Bush

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. — Sam Harris

China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second. — Francis Fukuyama

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal. — Jamie Lee Curtis

I t-tried to stay away, do the right thing. B-because I ain't no go for you. But f*uck, I want you so b-bad I feel like I- I c-can't breathe. Can't p-push you away n-no more. Need to have you c-close. — Tillie Cole

I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental. — Shaquille O'Neal

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner

Way too late in life, Els learned that the time to concentrate yourself was right before sunrise. — Richard Powers

She was wrong. She was not strong. Her heart was breaking, she could feel it ...
-Sky — Melissa De La Cruz

But you are human, and just like the rest of us you have the potential to be both a devil and an angel. There's no such thing as an evil race, just a human race.
Cressida — Stuart Hill