Revista Quem Quotes & Sayings

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. — Pearl S. Buck

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved. — Barbara Amiel

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play. — Sam Neill

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Engagement is not a matter of either speaking or doing; not a matter of either offering a compelling intellectual vision or embodying a set of alternative practices; not a matter of either merely making manifest the richness and depth of interior life or merely working to change the institutions of society; not a matter of either only displaying alternative politics as gathered in Eucharistic celebrations or merely working for change as the dispersed people of God. It is all these things and more. The whole person in all aspects of her life is engaged in fostering human flourishing and serving the common good. — Miroslav Volf

Like so many ancient cities, Perugia has long outgrown her early walls, and much of the new town is remorselessly ugly. — Francis Russell

Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully — Michael Connelly

Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow. — Ramon Gomez De La Serna

See, when we say a "spiritual seeker," unfortunately most people assume that he is God-oriented. A spiritual seeker is not God-oriented; if Devil is the chief of existence, he wants to know that. We want to know what is true; we are not interested in proving our belief systems, because we don't have any. — Jaggi Vasudev

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned. — Bertrand Russell

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself. — James Baldwin

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. — Aldo Leopold

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free. — Victor Hugo

My daughter, people are only used to seeing the glorified in a story, because a story is only a tiny, tiny piece of a person's life. Legends, sacred writings, they're all like that. But I assure you, dear child, every one of those people up there on that wall felt like, thought like, and suffered like you! — Darryl Steven Markowitz

The cross was not motivated out of sense of love for what we are, but what we could be only by His grace. — Jeremy J. Lundmark