Thaisa De Moraes Quotes & Sayings

Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth. — Caryll Houselander

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. — Joseph Brodsky

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them. — C.F. Heller

My face is distinct. It's hard to confuse me with anyone else. — DJ Qualls

Reality isn't round, it's flat. There are edges where you can fall off and this October when I moved to Maine, I fell off one. — Carrie Jones

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries. — Bertrand Russell

From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you. — Jean Webster

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money. — Oprah Winfrey

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world. — Tom Petty

People have to make their own decisions about their lives. — Meryl Streep

Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible. — Aristotle.

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras. — Nicole Polizzi