Arquivo Nacional Quotes & Sayings

There is an immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something. — John Ortberg

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems. — Timothy Geithner

Luck is nothing but combination of preparation and oppurtinity — Robin S. Sharma

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever - something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen. — Haruki Murakami

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death? — Confucius

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star. — Kitty Carlisle

I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like. — James Lipton

But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision. — Danny Glover

Communicatory inputs from the world can occur through any of the six primary sensory modalities at any time. The important thing is to first develop the capacity to feel the deeper meanings inside any of the sensory modalities, second to seek their meanings, and third to craft congruent responses. — Stephen Harrod Buhner

What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege. — Piers Anthony

I just don't want to come down to that level of society ... .the ones who sit by their televisions, drink their beer, their guts fat, vicariously living someone else's life, in a destructive way. I want a positive way. — Miki Dora