Provocare Dex Quotes & Sayings

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost. — Neil Gaiman

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity. — Anthony Mary Claret

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. — Rebecca West

That droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life. It fell through empty space, with no control whatsoever over its destiny; rolled along a path of silk; and somehow came to rest there on the teeth of that dragon. I thought of the petals I'd thrown into the Kamo River shallows outside Mr. Arashino's workshop, imagining they might find their way to the Chairman. It seemed to me that, somehow, perhaps they had. — Arthur Golden

For adversities must of necessity come. They are part of the pattern of life's pilgrimage for every individual; and who can escape them? But I say unto thee, that for those who walk in Me, and for those who are encircled by the intercessory prayers of My children, I shall make of the suffering, yea, shall make of the trials a stepping stone to future blessing. — Frances J Roberts

We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast is evident ... Here, most often, is nothing more than the best perspective to contemplate there. — Rebecca Solnit

The oldest woman in the village, Paciencia,
predicts the weather from the flight of birds:
Today it will rain toads, she says,
squinting her face into a mystery of wrinkles
as she reads the sky - tomorrow,
it will be snakes. — Judith Ortiz Cofer

We shall be branded with the steel of clinging shame if we leave the Philippines to fall into a welter of bloody anarchy," he proclaimed, "instead of taking hold of them and governing them with righteousness and justice, in the interests of their own people even more than in the interests of ours. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

One need not fear for the future of music. — John Cage

I'm just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe. — Temuera Morrison