Rodrigo Pessoa Quotes & Sayings

My lessons and strengths are found in my failures. — Latorria Freeman

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. — John Lyly

In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it. — Chuck Palahniuk

When going out of your material body, after the return, the courage becomes so great that you can tread on things that can take the life of a materialist. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. — Noam Chomsky

Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. — William Shakespeare

Wesley's theology was, then, largely a theology of reaction. Most of his theological output had polemical overtones, and some works were devoted exclusively to that end. The direction and the intensity of the challenge determined the character and strength of his reply. When this is taken into account, there is no contradiction between his teaching on Baptism and on the Lord's Supper. The Protestant and Catholic strands in Wesley's thought are held together in both cases, but the expression of their relative importance depends on the situation which is being addressed. — John R. Parris

When a world goes to pieces, when inhumanity reigns supreme, man cannot go on with business as usual. — Bruno Bettelheim

Life is continuous, and is Infinite. — Edgar Cayce

Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him. — Sophie Jordan

Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist. — Tahir Shah

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from. — Brigham Young

Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. — Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle

Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it. — Denise Levertov

I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something:
Maybe I can't hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket. — Veronica Roth