Tuguinha Quotes & Sayings

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're doing research, you're shut down for a while. You have to start all over again. So that's one area where I paid a high price. — Carl Hart

What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive. — Gabriel Zaid

Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion? — Sigmund Freud

Holding grudges is not one of your many talents. — Stephenie Meyer

One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment. — Pekka Himanen

And then you run. Because the only thing worse than her being gone is that you're still here. — Tricia Rayburn

They were live, breathe, eat, drink, fuck, bleed, and die for the life bikers. — Kristen Ashley

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. — Barbara Kingsolver

Bookstore withdrawal - who would suspect such a thing existed? — Cherise Sinclair

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man. — John Barth

One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind. — George Saunders

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. — Thomas Jefferson

(1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember, — John Piper

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past. — Julien Smith