Degraus Do Tempo Quotes & Sayings

Baseball is really two sports
the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle. — Thomas Boswell

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself. — John S. Mosby

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels! — Mother Teresa

Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads. — Rainbow Rowell

A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base. — Christopher Priest

We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life. — Sharon Weil

If I were not a doubter, I would know nothing. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent. — Camille Paglia

Anywhere - and, it follows, nowhere - can be a place. As long as we are there, to think and talk, to listen and respond. The world, once conscious of itself in the form of human making, is a vast concert hall. What sounds there is not the divine music of celestial spheres, as the ancient Greek mathematicians believed, but the sound of one human after another issuing the daily plea: to be heard, to be understood, to be accommodated. — Mark Kingwell

What does the end of a war mean if not that one side ran out of men willing to die? — Daniel Alarcon

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?
as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing! — George Bernard Shaw

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure. — Anthony De Jasay

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson