Turbulenta Portugues Quotes & Sayings

I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned as the Lord intended us to function, if we had paid our tithes and our offerings as the Lord intended us to pay them, we might have gone on without one dollar from our federal government. And has it ever occurred to you what a mighty influence we should have exercised for good and for respect and for all of the virtues that we have been taught, and that God has commanded us to exercise and cultivate and practice, if we had just followed along what he has asked us to do? — J. Reuben Clark

No one really knew what went on in her relationship with Mike. No one even really knew her. Maybe she loved Mike more than he liked her. And wasn't that horrible? Wasn't that sad? But people forgot about that. They didn't see a tragedy, just a good story. To them, it was just some girl to point to and say, "Well, at least my life isn't as fucked up at that". — Jennifer Close

Dana was lead singer for The Droids, Sweet Valley High's answer to the Rolling Stones. They had a reputation for being pretty wild, but most of it was just conjecture. Not many outsiders knew what went on in the smoky confines of Max Dellon's basement, where they held their practice sessions. — Francine Pascal

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer. — Bruno Mars

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality. — Rosalind E. Krauss

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful. — Huey Lewis

I came for the sake of love-devotion; seeing the world, I wept. — Mirabai

Discovering the threads that constitute actual interactions is an essential means of making sense of the world. But perception of overall patterns of things that are contextually related is equally important. — Richard J. Borden

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is. — E.B. White

Don't ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child. — Carrie Hope Fletcher

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known. — Laozi

All along, I kept thinking, I will never do this again, I will never be here again, this will never be my locker again, Radar and I will never write notes in calculus again — John Green

And human society will continue, in various times and places, to degenerate into a murderous horde, even if it remains so civilized as to depute the legal, political, and military machineries of the state to do its murdering for it. In such a world, Christians have no choice but to continue to believe in the power of the gospel to transform the human will from an engine of cruelty, sentimentality, and selfishness into a vessel of divine grace, capable of union with God and love of one's neighbor. — David Bentley Hart

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it. — James Dyson