Quatis Prefeitura Quotes & Sayings

In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters." These people, by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam. — Edward Said

Wagner Doctor Faustus' student and servant: "Alas, poor slave! See how poverty jests in his nakedness. I know the villain's out of service, and so hungry that I know he would give his soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though it were blood raw."
Robin a clown: "Not so, neither! I had need to have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear, I can tell you. — Christopher Marlowe

If you avoid the rejection, you avoid the opportunity. — Dave Trott

If a thing can't go on forever, it will eventually stop. — Herbert Stein

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth. — Jerold Panas

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance. — Brendan Rodgers

Until we realize that things might not be, we cannot realize that things are. Until we see the background of darkness, we cannot admire the light as a single and created thing. As soon as we have seen that darkness, all light is lightening, sudden, blinding, and divine. Until we picture nonentity we underrate the victory of God, and can realize none of the trophies of His ancient war. It is one of the million wild jests of truth that we know nothing until we know nothing. — G.K. Chesterton

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort. — Dan Shechtman

She stepped outwards into the dim atmosphere, and falling, was most fabulously lit by the moon and the sun. — Mervyn Peake

The feeling of being a digression not the link in the argument,
a new direction, an offshoot, the limb going on elsewhere,
and liking that error, a feeling of being capable because an error,
of being wrong perhaps altogether wrong a piece from another set
stripped of position stripped of true function
and loving that error, loving that filial form, that break from perfection
where the complex mechanism fails, where the stranger appears in the clearing,
out of nowhere and uncalled for, out of nowhere to share the day. — Jorie Graham