Conselhos Da Quotes & Sayings

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. - Victor Frankenstein. — Mary Shelley

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

Economics.
Something humans invented and then lost control of, it isn't real, it's not like gravity and we could evolve the economic process to make sense, but can't because we would all lose money if we did. Hysterical scientific exerts aside, it doesn't exist outside of our collective heads. So at best its a pseudo science of religious proportions, at worst, it will turn us into a globally warmed suicide cult en mass. ;-) — Steve Merrick

A real collector does not sell. — Eli Broad

No one can make us feel any way unless we let them. — Marian Keyes

Goodness is grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are. — Colum McCann

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility. — Madeleine Albright

Each person is entitled to some version of God that seems real, yet many versions contradict one another. The God of any religion is only a fragment of God. This has to be true, because a being who is unbounded has no image, no role to play, no location either inside or outside the cosmos, whereas religions offer many images
father, mother, lawgiver, judge, ruler of the universe. — Deepak Chopra

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. — Ivan Illich

No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful. — Kimora Lee Simmons

There are situations in life which bring the impartial observer to the conclusion that suicide is a luxury which is within the reach of, and permissible to, wealthy people. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

-the phrase "lion's share" here means "the biggest part" and has nothing to do with lions or sharing- — Lemony Snicket

Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we're to have a future worth living. — Raffi Cavoukian

She empathized with those who were true victims but, in her own case, she rejected victimhood. The details of life and the amusement that she took in dwelling on those details, toying with those details, were her weaponry of choice against the many difficulties that she had to face. New York was a bitter place for women of her class and color in those days, but she did not reciprocate that bitterness. She rose above the meanness that surrounded her. She punched holes in that meanness with her cleverness and wit and with her eye for the preposterous. She laughed a lot. She loved her lamb chops and her baked potato. In the details, she transcended. — Jonathan Kozol