Avelar Brotero Quotes & Sayings

I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else. — Ludivine Sagnier

Women's place is where they can do the most good. — Esther Peterson

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.' — Juliet Stevenson

Isn't it marvelous to discover that you're the one you've been waiting for? That you are your own freedom? — Byron Katie

It's cruel, maybe, but it's hard to sympathize with grief when it's over someone who just tried to kill you. — Chris Kyle

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded. — Henry David Thoreau

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. — Ambrose Bierce

It might be a nice world if nobody ever said a disagreeable thing, but it would be a dangerous one, — L.M. Montgomery

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips. — Sophia Loren

I blinked at her. My shades were down and the hall was dark and to me, half-drugged and reeling, she seemed not at all her bright unattainable self but rather a hazy and ineffably tender apparition, all slender wrists and shadows and disordered hair, the Camilla who resided, dim and lovely, in the gloomy boudoir of my dreams. — Donna Tartt

The theme is the evil of divorcing ideals from life. — Ayn Rand

We are all the same instincts
Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing less. — Paulo Coelho

The Music of Negro religion is that plaintive rhythmic melody, with its touching minor cadences, which, despite caricature and defilement, still remains the most original and beautiful expression of human life and longing yet born on American soil. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Destroying our confidence in the natural virtues, because they are not promises of what we are going to be, but only a wasted reminder of what God created man to be. We want to cling to our natural virtues, while all the time God is trying to get us in contact with the life of Jesus Christ - a life that can never be described in terms of natural virtues. It is the saddest thing to see people who are trying to serve God depending on that which the grace of God never gave them. They are depending solely on what they — Oswald Chambers