Crocodilo No Douro Quotes & Sayings

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks. — Bob Odenkirk

Filling with food,
Warming with clothes,
Living leisurely without learning,
It is little short of animals. — Mencius

Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy. — Guy Davenport

Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself. — Rick Pitino

It's a great shame, she thinks, that the heart cannot feel joy without also feeling pain, that it cannot know love without also knowing loss. — Menna Van Praag

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts. — Allan Lokos

I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president. — Gianfranco Fini

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. — George Orwell

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know? — Viggo Mortensen

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing. — E.B. White

There are some well-meaning liberals who continue to cling to colorblindness out of loyalty to a utopian vision of a raceless society. But for most fans of colorblindness, its attraction lies in that it sounds fair - even as it fosters the impression that discrimination against whites is rampant, and works assiduously to defeat policies actually geared to achieving integration. — Ian F. Haney-Lopez

That intensity, that feeling of the battle, heat of the moment: personally, that's what I live for. — Victoria Azarenka

Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship. — Anandamayi Ma