Carvalhosa Quotes & Sayings

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast. — Rumi

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance. — Benjamin Franklin

A man doesn't know his true strength until he fears for his life — Anthony Ryan

There is absolutely nothing that can harm the shadow. Nothing. I advise you strongly not try. — Erin Kellison

When a society removes moral responsibility by belief that the acquisition of knowledge comes from an unknown and mysterious venue, it loses its ability for rational conceptualization of values because they are stripped from the reality of this life and placed in an imaginary next life, which is a recipe for disaster. — Al Stefanelli

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect. — Tor Udall

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation. — Jean-Baptiste Say

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. — Laurence Housman