Samaris Benfica Quotes & Sayings

How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension? — Kim Stanley Robinson

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. — Katherine Paterson

Not everything that is good for you is fun and not everything that is fun is good for you. — Michael Josephson

Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda. — Edwin Way Teale

Resentment was the hinge of her personality. — Colson Whitehead

Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else. — Marvin Gaye

Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes. - ALBERT CAMUS, THE REBEL — Clive James

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. — Erin Morgenstern

The talents lost
the moments run
To waste
the sins of act, of thought,
Ten thousand deeds of folly done,
And countless virtues cherish'd not. — John Bowring

It's really neat when you become a role model. It's also a lot of responsibility. But if you see it as a platform where you can pour into others for Jesus with love, that's where I want to be. Becoming known or noticed in my sport isn't what drives me to work hard and want to be the best I can be. It's Jesus. That's why I play. I play to glorify Him. I worship Him with the gifts I've been given. — Tobin Heath

Just as there are legal guidelines concerning the police use of provocateurs, there must be limits to how far the media can go in setting up a misleading situation ... I, for one, can simply not accept that telling a lie is an acceptable way of reporting the truth ... Every poll of public opinion shows that there is a suspicion among the general public that the media do not tell the whole truth, or that they distort things, or that they exaggerate, or that they are biased. — Peter Robinson

If the reader possesses any wealth and a comfortable life, he'll step out of himself to see how the other sometimes lives. If he's poor, he won't be reading me because reading me is superfluous for anyone who has a slight permanent hunger. Here I'm playing the role of a safety valve for you and from the massacring life of the average middle class. I'm well aware that it's frightening to step out of oneself, but everything new is frightening. Though the anonymous girl in this story is so ancient that she could be a biblical figure. She was subterranean and had never flowered: I'm lying: she was grass. — Clarice Lispector

Maybe I'm like a rough piece of clay. But I can be refined, and shaped, and become better with you. — Lauren Blakely