Carvalhaiseferreira Quotes & Sayings

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. — Hermann Hesse

I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to. — Oscar Pistorius

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. — John Adams

Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom, nothing much changed for you when you were poor. — Judy Croome

Wept for the death of an ardent and immature love that had been unable to bring any comfort or peace to the beloved. And wept for the woman he had taken to wife with such high ideals - the woman who had just killed herself rather than face a final illness with only his arms to comfort her. Wept for his own frailty and infidelity. For his own humanness. He — Mary Balogh

I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal. — Rod Serling

Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created in succession at such times and in such places as to enable them to multiply and endure for an appointed period, and occupy an appointed space on the globe. — Charles Lyell

You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!'
'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved — Georgette Heyer

I pitch with emotion. I don't know any other way. — Carlos Zambrano

[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways. — Eleanor Antin

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another? — Gary Shteyngart

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. — Yasser Arafat

For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses. — Nancy Lublin

Ability means all of us finding our strengths and putting them to full use. — Kathleen Wynne