Distinta Plataforma Quotes & Sayings

In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity
which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves
we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims. — James Baldwin

If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds. — Anthony Liccione

You'd be surprised what people will accept once you insist two or three times running that they have seen what you tell them they have seen. — Andrew Levkoff

I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family. — Lance Armstrong

A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone. — Maya Angelou

If you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either. — Aldous Huxley

You can control a lot of things, but your heart is not one of them — Elizabeth LaShaun

It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster. — Charles Madigan

Why did nobody in my life listen to me? So many things could be averted if they did. — Donna Augustine

I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally. If I get trolled, [my friends will send me] an email with the person's Social Security number, phone number, pictures of his family, his business, his spouse. I see this person in his totality, and I feel so bad. I shouldn't have that power. — Margaret Cho

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress. — Hans Rosling