Fr Alfred D Souza Quotes

#1. If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

John Barton

#2. All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income

Samuel Butler

#3. We can fortell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be.

J.B.S. Haldane

#4. I put the words into a flask and flung them out to sea. Flung them far out from me, made through myself, but not myself. Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
The world is packed tight with fools.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.

Randall Jarrell

#6. the feelings you have for someone may never change but the road traveled will always change

Mike Prelee

#7. To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#8. They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye. The women took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away for remembrance.

Zora Neale Hurston

#9. That's excellent, Sophie." He cleared his throat and snapped the vibrations off, giving Sophie a couple of seconds to gather herself together as he returned to his seat. "I think we can send this one to production," he said.

Kitty French

#10. When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Chogyam Trungpa

#11. As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.

Eugene V. Debs

#12. Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Nido R. Qubein

#13. A life without books is empty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. If he weren't so damn cute, none of this would have happened.

Nicholas Sparks