Aliados Porto Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first. — Jimy Williams

Love is everything unusual about a usual person. — Warren Eyster

Thorne "I don't like to think of it as 'stolen. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back". — Marissa Meyer

History teaches us, however, that when the times are ripe for change and the government refuses or is unable to change, either society starts to decay or a revolution begins. — Mikhail Gorbachev

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II — Mahmoud Abbas

They (Amish) don't take no for an answer. — Cynthia Keller

I do know that framing your husband for your murder is beyond the pale of what an average would do. But it's so very necessary. — Gillian Flynn

Never had I felt so much the slave as when I scoured those stone steps each afternoon. Working against time, I would wet five steps, sprinkle soap powder, then a white doctor or a nurse would come and, instead of avoiding the soppy steps, walk on them and track the dirty water onto the steps that I had already cleaned. To obviate this, I cleaned but two steps at a time, a distance over which a ten-year-old child could step. But it did no good. The white people still plopped their feet down into the dirty water and muddled the other clean steps. If I ever really hotly hated unthinking whites, it was then. Not once during my entire stay at the institute did a single white person show enough courtesy to avoid a wet step. — Richard Wright

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need — Barbara Kingsolver

The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. Like a rider on the back of an elephant, the conscious reasoning part of the mind has only limited control of what the elephant does. — Jonathan Haidt

The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. Reading deeply in the Canon will not make one a better or a worse person, a more useful or more harmful citizen. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality. W — Harold Bloom

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-page to skin. — Amanda Lovelace

Ordinary man to Zen Master Ikkyu: 'Master, please write the maxims exemplifying the highest wisdom.' Ikkyu immediately writes the ideogram 'Attention,' with his brush. The man asks, 'Will you please add something more?' Ikkyu now writes, twice: 'Attention. Attention.' The man remarks, with an edge, 'There's really not much depth or subtlety here.' Ikkyu then writes the same ideogram three times: 'Attention. Attention. Attention.' The man now demands: 'What does that word 'Attention' mean, anyway?' Ikkyu replies: 'Attention means attention. — James H. Austin

We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray. — Esther Smith

While we all need external structure in our lives - some degree of predictability, routine, organization - those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure. — Edward M. Hallowell