Puiu Chibici Quotes & Sayings

We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back. That is, from our perspective, completely clear. On the other hand, we should scrutinize the now completely outdated principle that only the migrants' first country of arrival should be burdened with their registration as well as with the process of sorting out who has the right to asylum and who needs to be deported. — Paolo Gentiloni

Having a body, we have seen, does not entail knowing a body. Whereas a cow automatically eats whatever grasses supply needed nutrients, people must determine for themselves what to put into their bodies, with the result that there is room to make mistakes. Mistakes arise, in part, from ignorance. Yet ignorance is not the only problem produced by this arrangement. The fact that we are not compelled by our bodies' precise needs - understood as particular kinds of food and drink, rather than food and drink tout court - allows the formation of desires that have little or nothing to do with the needs on which bodily health depends. — Brooke Holmes

For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement. — Kevin Bales

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up. — Terry Pratchett

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness! — Euripides

If you want to change your hair colour or your nail colour or things like that its fine, but you have to realize the dangers and repercussions of surgery. — Heidi Montag

Record collection, with all those lifetimes and desires rhymed and distilled into two or three minutes of a song. — Michael Ondaatje

169. We whip them. Starve them. Chain them. Break their spirits. Break their minds. Still they love us. Still they offer up their lives without hesitation. Because when a horse loves you, it's fucking absolute. And all they ask is that you love them back. Most of them never get even that. — Matthew Woodring Stover

In my youth I believed in somewhere else
I put my faith in travel
now I am becoming my own tree — W.S. Merwin

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall? ... No, you would find a new wall. — David Belle

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. — Theodore Bikel

The Law has become a person. When we encounter Jesus, we feed on the living God himself, so to speak; we truly eat "bread from heaven. — Pope Benedict XVI

Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before men! Did you think God had exempted Weybridge? He is not an insurance agent. — H.G.Wells

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything. — Larry Brilliant

A lot of men are very sloppy with the way they cheat. You can get caught from your cell phone or hanging around the wrong people while you're doing your dirt. Or you can get caught after a woman purposely leaves something in your car. — Tyrese Gibson