Coimbra University Quotes & Sayings

Must there always be "wars and rumors of war"? Accepting the inevitability of war is one thing, but glorifying war in the name of God and claiming that it reflects strong character and patriotism is quite another. — Ron Paul

One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone. For a lot of people they just want to see you or want to take a photograph of that moment. Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. — Jason Mraz

I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss. — Deb Caletti

I wasn't as good at semi-normal conversation as I was at ones that were written down, or adrenalized in a surreal moment. — David Levithan

On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about literary forms, they could write something dunderheaded about the author or their life (I've seen these and barfed at them), but anyone who is well-practiced and educated in literature - why would they leave that at the door when entering memoir? — Lidia Yuknavitch

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'? — Eugene Field

Blessings are just curses that other people envy. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain. — Laurent Jalabert

Germany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the scale of Evolution. — Diane Ackerman

I am confident in who I am. — Hugh Dillon

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped. — Napoleon Hill

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. — George Santayana

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor. — Mother Teresa

After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter ruin than to give the people a beautiful auto-da-fe; for it had been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from quaking. — Voltaire

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. — Nate Ruess