Alcides Machado Quotes & Sayings

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were. — Elizabeth McCracken

A child miseducated is a child lost. — John F. Kennedy

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic. — Michele Bachmann

That is all about the raising of Lazarus, she whispered severely and abruptly, and turning away she stood motionless, not daring to raise her eyes to him. She still trembled feverishly. The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candle-stick, dimly lighting up the poverty-stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book. Five minutes or more passed. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Military security has to rest, ultimately, on economic and polit
ical stability. One of the effects of the rapidity of change in the
world today is that there can no longer be static stability; there
can only be dynamic stability. A nation or society that fails to
keep pace with change is in danger of flying apart. It is important
that we recognize this, but equally important that in trying to
maintain a dynamic stability we remember — Richard M. Nixon

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it. — Oriana Fallaci

Origins should never be a barrier to success. A modest start in life can be a help more than a hindrance. — Alex Ferguson

The only relationship where you'll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah. — Little_adam

The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers. — Anthony Marra

The rhythm of editing, the length of a frame- these are not merely dictated by the professional need to establish a link with the audience (as they are thought to be). They express the character and the originality of the author of the film. At the present time cineastes use editing rhythm to gild the pill that has to be swallowed by the unfortunate audience. According to me, entirely in order to make money. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. — Thomas Aquinas