Pumunta Sa Quotes & Sayings

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth . — Novalis

A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun. — John Lancaster Spalding

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love, which runs through creation and is common to the lowest animals and plants, it appears as a kind of organic basis for the unity of all creatures; in another, as the love of the mother for her offspring - which may also be termed a passion - it seems to pledge itself to the care and guardianship of the future race; in another, as the marriage of man and woman, it becomes the very foundation of human society. And so we can hardly believe that in its homogenic form, with which we are here concerned, it has not also a deep significance, and social uses and functions which will become clearer to us, the more we study it. — Edward Carpenter

Great teams work harder after a tough loss. — Ron Brown

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism. — Joe Biden

[And] we were never alive and we won't be born again — Slipknot

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist ... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter. — Alonzo King

Most public persons do not market themselves as cheating lowlives - certainly not politicians (okay, maybe a few rock stars.) But most people try to present a somewhat appealing persona, which is why sex is still a hot topic. — Roxanne Roberts

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine. — James Frey

Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books. — Roald Dahl

Why, for example, wasn't AIG required to reserve capital against them? Why, for that matter, were Moody's and Standard & Poor's willing to bless 80 percent of a pool of dicey mortgage loans with the same triple-A rating they bestowed on the debts of the U.S. Treasury? Why didn't someone, anyone, inside Goldman Sachs stand up and say, "This is obscene. The rating agencies, the ultimate pricers of all these subprime mortgage loans, clearly do not understand the risk, and their idiocy is creating a recipe for catastrophe"? — Michael Lewis

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes. — Ellen Hopkins

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place. — Therese Of Lisieux

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother. — Satish Kumar

In Ugandan society a girl who had reached puberty was eligible for a family-arranged marriage. The groom would bring wealth to the bride's family in the form of cattle, goats, or land. My experience at the hands of Joseph Kony's murderers and rapists had made a mockery of this custom. I hated the idea, and my father understood. — Nick Hahn