Chamados Para Quotes & Sayings

The greatest warrior is not he who conquers his enemies, but he who conquers himself. — Sensei Darian Stokes

This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything
a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness
only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted. — Megan McCafferty

It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it was spring a while back, then it was summer, and now it's fall-that's sure a curious idea. — Ken Kesey

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms. — Arthur Keith

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly. — Melissa Harris-Perry

I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me. — Jenny Slate

It is presumptuous, personally and historically, to assume that one is a part of a "saving remnant." One had better doubt that one deserves such a distinction, and had better understand that there may, after all, be nothing left to save. Even so, if one wishes to save anything not protected by the present economy - topsoil, groves of old trees, the possibility of the goodness or health of anything, even the economic relevance of the biblical tradition - one is a part of a remnant, and a dwindling remnant too, though not without hope, and not without the necessary instructions, the most pertinent of which, perhaps, is this, also from Revelation: "Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. — Wendell Berry

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't. — Ava Gardner

He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of achievement, of time not wasted, as though the destruction of much labour were in some way an act of creation. — George Orwell

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it. — George J. Mitchell

Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling? — Mahatma Gandhi

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — W. H. Auden

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work. — Shakuntala Devi

It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all. — Jessica Khoury