Abrindo As Pernas Quotes & Sayings

What do you read for pleasure?
Kama Sutra. — Jonathan Dunne

I think perhaps people have too limited a view of where they can put books. They believe they have to be in a room specified as 'the library.' I think books can be anywhere in a house. Piles of books in corners do not offend me. Putting books in the dining room is a wonderful idea. My idea of heaven would be to dine, as well as to sleep, surrounded by books.
~Robert A.M. Stern, Architect — Estelle Ellis

When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is
just, yet refuse to defend it
at that moment you begin to die.
And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about
justice. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one. — Stephen King

(It's a weird thing, depression. Even now, writing this with a good distance of fourteen years from my lowest point, I haven't fully escaped. You get over it, but at the same time you never get over it. It comes back in flashes, when you are tired or anxious or have been eating the wrong stuff, and catches you off guard. I woke up with it a few days ago, in fact. I felt its dark wisps around my head, that ominous life-is-fear feeling. But then, after a morning with the best five- and six-year-olds in the world, it subsided. it is now an aside. Something to put brackets around. Life lesson: the way out is never through yourself.) — Matt Haig

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?'
'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over. — Malcolm Bradbury

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns. — Erich Fromm

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. — Bernard Levin

If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules. — Don King

We have to believe that by engaging in dialogue with the other person, we have the possibility of making a change within ourselves, that we can become deeper. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood. — Gregory Maguire

Dont throw yourself out on another's whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you, but realize that they've got their own agendas. — Alex Gaskarth

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides! — Alexandre Dumas