Contornar Significado Quotes & Sayings

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. — Austin O'Malley

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines. — George Eliot

Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience. — Lyall Watson

I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life. — Victoria Osteen

The elder Bush explained later that "watching your son taking a pounding from his critics was much, much harder" than being president. "Barbara quit reading the papers and watching the new, but I couldn't do that — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt. — Rick Baker

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world. — Michael Morpurgo

We're machines for turning caffeine into physics — Nima Arkani-Hamed

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. — H.G.Wells

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower. — Victor Hugo

I came in several times and spoke, but perhaps you were asleep when I thought you were awake.'
'You are very considerate to explain it this way,' Sugreeva said, 'but I was drunk — R.K. Narayan