Brilhar Por Quotes & Sayings

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all. — P.D. Ouspensky

Advertising also plays a role. Consumers need to know about something before they can buy it. So — Jonah Berger

Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications. — Vijay Kumar

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music. — Gloria Steinem

I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves. — John Lindsay

Basic military rule: you manage your anger by kicking ass, not by rearranging the furniture in your room. — Mohammed Hanif

In the same way, we have to inform the multitude that restoration comes at a price. Suppose we give them an intimation of the cost through a series of questions. Are you ready, we must ask them, to grant that the law of reward is inflexible and that one cannot, by cunning or through complaints, obtain more than he puts in? Are you prepared to see that comfort may be a seduction and that the fetish of material prosperity will have to be pushed aside in favor of some sterner ideal? Do you see the necessity of accepting duties before you begin to talk of freedoms? — Richard Weaver

That was the day Rehab promised herself she would never bow her head to such gods. She hated them. For all their glittering attraction, she had seen them for what they were. They were consumers of humanity. — Tessa Afshar

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond. — Liz Curtis Higgs

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold down the adjoining. — Saul Bellow

It has always been hard for me to talk about Julian without romanticizing him. In many ways, I loved him the most of all; and it is with him that I am most tempted to embroider, to flatter, to basically reinvent. I think that is because Julian himself was constantly in the process of reinventing the people and events around him, conferring kindness, or wisdom, or bravery, or charm, on actions which contained nothing of the sort. It was one of the reasons I loved him; for that flattering light in which he saw me, for the person I was when I was with him, for what it was he allowed me to be. — Donna Tartt

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. — Thomas Browne

I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films. — Carey Mulligan

I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man ... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson. — Elizabeth Peters