Poetessa Campo Quotes & Sayings

Dreams reveal facts about ourselves that we ignored. Dreams help us see hidden truths.
Dreams, sometimes, are just soothing songs. — Petra F. Bagnardi

May the Lord grant you great grace, great strength and great wisdom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them. They fear the bold man, and mistrust the clever man, and moreover think them rather beholding to their natural complexion, than to any goodness of their will, for these excellences; they look upon valour as a certain natural strength of the mind, and wisdom as a constitutional acuteness; whereas a man has it in his power to be just, if he have but the will to be so, and therefore injustice is thought the most dishonourable, because it is least excusable. — Plutarch

Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others. — Jawaharlal Nehru

To each virtue there is an opposing vice; hence the wicked take vices for virtues. — Saint Nikodimos

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

JavaScript derives its syntax from Java, its first-class functions from Scheme, and its prototype-based inheritance from Self. But — David Flanagan

I didn't go to Hebrew school. — Amy Heckerling

The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly - unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive to resist. — James Davison Hunter

Not that my watching out was likely to do a lot of good, I thought; every second man on the dock looked like an assassin to me. — Diana Gabaldon

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington. — Billy Graham

Then she turned to me and her eyes widened. "Holy shit. It's a girl." She dropped a hand over her heart, backing up a step. — C.L.Stone

I've read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry
really necessary novels like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland. Also Emerson's Essays and Lockhart's Life of Scott and the first volume of Gibbon's Roman Empire and half of Benvenuto Cellini's Life
wasn't he entertaining? He used to saunter out and casually kill a man before breakfast. — Jean Webster

No, the only good in life lay in not being - or, if one had to be, then in being a tree, a stone, or even less than that, the grain of sand that cannot bleed beneath the grinding heel of a passer-by. — Emile Zola

Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing. — Peter James West