Prima Voce Quotes & Sayings

Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential — Samer Chidiac

Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it? — Juliet Marillier

Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening. — Terry Tempest Williams

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much. — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

But the screws had been there since the sixth day of creation and wouldn't budge. I leaned into — Carolyn Brown

Whatever color a person's skin, whatever language he speaks, God loves him. — David Frost

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

I'd high-five you if I could move my arm."
"How do you think I feel? You're already an athlete, I hurt in places I didn't know existed."
"You're the idiot who wanted to learn how to row. Why, Kaitlyn, why? Why would you do that? Why would you ask that sadist to teach you how to row? Why?"
I tried to shake my heat but I couldn't. "I don't know. Shut your whore mouth. I just want to die. — Penny Reid

I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows ... Or it would be fine to confirm the odd beliefs about war: it's horrible, but it's a crucible of men and events and, in the end, it makes more of a man out of you.
But, still, none of these notions seems right. Men are killed, dead human beings are heavy and awkward to carry, things smell different in Vietnam, soldiers are afraid and often brave, drill sergeants are boors, some men think the war is proper and just and others don't and most don't care. Is that the stuff for a morality lesson, even for a theme?
Do dreams offer lessons? Do nightmares have themes, do we awaken and analyze them and live our lives and advise others as a result? Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories. — Tim O'Brien

Not long ago Congress voted, with much patriotic rhetoric, for the imposition of severe penalties upon anyone presuming to burn the flag of the United States. Yet the very Congressmen who passed this law are responsible, by acts of commission or omission, for burning, polluting, and plundering the territory that the flag is supposed to represent. Therein, they exemplified the peculiar and
perhaps fatal fallacy of civilization: the confusion of symbol with reality. — Alan W. Watts

Integrity - Take the harder right over the easier wrong. — Kelly Perdew

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom — Jocelyn Murray

I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff. — Adelaide Kane