Quintral Planta Quotes & Sayings

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading. — Erica Jong

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver. — Paulo Freire

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again. — C. William Beebe

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny ... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist. — E.B. White

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought. — Mark Kingwell

We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others. — Dillon Burroughs

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014. — Theophilus London

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. — Dave Barry

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling. — Ryan Lewis

In a gesture of astonishing chutzpah, the North Koreans were submitting a bill of $3,241 for his enforced stay at the Yanggakdo Hotel. They'd even broken the room rate down, with six days at the "tourist season" rate of $75/day, and 36 days at the "ordinary season" rate of $60/day. Plus $591 for meals, $14 for dessert, and $23 for the phone call to Lee. And, as a final insult, there was a $3 fee for "a lost plate." Merrill asked the State Department whether paying might help the other Americans detained in North Korea, and was told no. The bill remains unpaid. — Mike Chinoy

There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor is there a lowest point. These configurations are ideas. Ideas are primitive constructs, symbolic representations, reflections in a mirror. — Frederick Lenz

Grieve not that I die young.
Is it not well to pass away
ere life hath lost its brightness? — Lady Flora Hastings