Quotes
Authors
Angel Abrea
"When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of many, or a friend's betrayal, we must be able to pray in such a manner that an abiding faith and a strong testimony that the Lord will be with us to the end, will compel us to say, "Nevertheless, Father, Thy will be done, and with Thy help, in patience I will follow firmly on the path that takes me back to Thee."" --
Angel Abrea
#Strong Quotes
#Betrayal Quotes
#Father Quotes
“People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.”
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.”
“Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?”
“Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.”
“Extra interest signifies extra risk.”
“A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.”
Source : Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books
“The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.”
Source : Millard Fillmore (1970). “Millard Fillmore Papers”
“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine”
