Conquanto Priberam Quotes & Sayings

I suppose it is the lot of soldiers and Marines to be objectified according to the politics of the day and the mood of the American people about their war. — Phil Klay

Watch it, nasty boy, or I might jest have you fixed, iffin you not careful. — Jason Medina

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders. — John Herschel

It's odd, but people are capable of forgetting quite extraordinary occurrences very quickly if it makes them happier to do so, — John Connolly

In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them? — Ellen Goodman

I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences. — Orhan Pamuk

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt

I really am just as discontented, but I don't seem to notice it so much. — Dodie Smith

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure. — Darin Strauss

I ended up comparing any girl I was ever with to you. I was never going to find you in any of them was I, AJ? Because there will never be another you. — Jaimie Roberts

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. — Prudentius

I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since. — Fisher Stevens

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten. — A.C. Grayling

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. — Aldous Huxley