Pretiosum Quotes & Sayings

Often people either don't want to, or aren't used to seeing women angry. Not emotional ,not upset, just angry. Not reactionary anger, necessarily, the anger of just being a woman. My anger serves me. It gives me a lot of energy. Sometimes, it hurts, which is the flip side of the same coin. But, I'm happy. I like my life. I like being free to express my rage. — Cristien Storm

Some criticize me, thinking I'm too tolerant of the clerical regime in Iran. In response, I have to say, I have served time in prison, I have lost my position [as a judge]. Do I need to prove that I am brave? Do I need to be killed? — Shirin Ebadi

If you aren't you, we don't get you. — Max Lucado

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. — P.D. James

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill. — Tamora Pierce

Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new ideal of tolerance which inspires no sacrifice. Why should any human being in the world be merely tolerated? What man has ever made a sacrifice in the name of tolerance? It leads men, instead, to express their own egotism in a book or a lecture that patronizes the downtrodden group. One of the cruelest things that can happen to a human being is to be tolerated. Never once did Our Lord say, "Tolerate your enemies!" But He did say, "Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you" (Matt. 5:44). Such love can be achieved only if we deliberately curb our fallen nature's animosities. — Fulton J. Sheen

However people feel about Kanye is their opinion, but I think he's a genius. — Pooch Hall

My breath sour against my fist, which I still held to my mouth as if this was a sorrow that could be stifled. — Melanie Benjamin

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. — Isobelle Carmody