Construtores Quotes & Sayings

He'd tried to explain it to her, how accidents happen but we really are safe. But there was, already, the sense that nothing he said touched what was really bothering her, which was the realization that you can't stop bad things from happening to other people, other things. And that would be hard forever. He'd never quite gotten used to it himself. — Megan Abbott

When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win. — Kenny Troutt

As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty,
See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see. — Walt Whitman

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean. — Chris Carter

You know ... when you are sad you love the sunsets. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity. — Robin Sharma

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the whole thing. — Johan Hegg

To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground. — Roger Federer

And so we are seeds of love, scattered across the world, from the hands of the wind. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra. — Dalai Lama

The self was both its origins and its journey. — Salman Rushdie

Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius. — William Shakespeare

The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life. — Robin Marantz Henig