Brasilien Flagge Quotes & Sayings

Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it? — Greg Proops

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember. — Samuel Johnson

You who will emerge from the flood
In which we have gone under
Remember
When you speak of our failings
The dark time too
Which you have escaped — Bertolt Brecht

Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security. — John O. Brennan

We became who we became because of what wasn't there — Jessica Soffer

The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you. — Lois Duncan

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves. — Abraham Lincoln

People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, computers, tape recorders, and generally by the time they have reached this decision, they have had a simple education. — Muriel Spark

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size. — Kel Mitchell

Becoming a good conversationalist is all about developing good conversational habits. Habits that show who you are in an engaging way and encourage the other person to do the same. — Charlie Houpert

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? — Paulo Coelho

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. — Roman Jakobson

But there were alternative media outlets. Oh sure, and you know who listens to them? Pansy, overeducated know-it-alls, and you know who listens to them? Nobody! Who's going to care about some PBS-NPR fringe minority that's out of touch with the mainstream? The more those elitist eggheads shouted "The Dead Are Walking," the more most real Americans tuned them out. — Max Brooks