Valcina Quotes & Sayings

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another. — Jon Stewart

For fuck's sake, you vanished and I couldn't find you. Do you really think I'm going to let that happen again? If you believe nothing else, concede it will work for that reason alone. I don't lose things that are mine. — Karen Marie Moning

A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are. — Mark Cuban

It is better to accept the truth than a temporary lie. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds. — Lester Bangs

People commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment. — Li Ang

Paul Ricoeur has wonderful counsel for people like us. Go ahead, he says, maintain and practice your hermaneutics of suspicion. It is important to do this. Not only important, it is necessary. There are a lot of lies out there; learn to discern the truth and throw out the junk. But then reenter the book, the world, with what he calls 'a second naivete'.' Look at the world with childlike wonder, ready to be startled into surprised delight by the profuse abundance of truth and beauty and goodness that is spilling out of the skies at every moment. Cultivate a hermaneutic of adoration - see how large, how splendid, how magnificent life is.

And then practice this hermaneutic of adoration in the reading of Holy Scripture. Plan on spending the rest of our lives exploring and enjoying the world both vast and intricate that is revealed by this text. — Eugene H. Peterson

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. — Victor Hugo