Preferiam Quotes & Sayings

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. — Walter F. Mondale

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does. — Elizabeth Bishop

First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous
quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities
about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then
that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The nature of the praise and prayer in the Psalms indicates how memory is key to praise and prayer. — John E. Goldingay

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone — Tracy Chapman

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the prestige of the conqueror and backed by British bayonets, Christianity is not supported by the converts themselves. Every bit of Protestant Christianity in India is maintained partly by the money flowing from England and America, and partly by taxes imposed upon the Hindus against their will, which must be paid although the people starve.
The people of India as a whole are saturated with religious and philosophical thought. They think and ponder on spiritual matters from childhood to death. Even the street-sweeper is frequently more profoundly versed in subtle metaphysics and divine wisdom than the missionary sent to convert him. — Virchand Gandhi

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves. — Will Schwalbe

It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution. — Robert M. Pirsig

But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike. — Eric Linklater

I was the one who was discouraged, the day I asked how we could possibly expect to win this fight, alone and outnumbered, far from home - against the Mogadorians, who seem to take great joy in war and death. "It's the last thing to go," Henri says. "When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope." "Exactly," I say. — Pittacus Lore

When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it. — John Wayne