Elvas Distrito Quotes & Sayings

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it. — Lord Kelvin

Pythagoras
Did stagger us
And our reason encumber
With irrational number — Steven Cushing

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives. — Ann Cotton

Everyone you see is you in a different time & space. — Ralph Smart

Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English? — Stephen Colbert

It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.'

'No,' said Silas, 'no; that doesn't hinder. Since the time the child was sent to me and I've come to love her as myself, I've had light enough to trusten by; and now she says she'll never leave me, I think I shall trusten until I die. — George Eliot

The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis. — William Osler

We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often is confused with selfishness and conceit. We are selfish when we do not love and accept ourselves, and attempt to take from others to fill the emptiness. Conceit indicates low self-worth and an attempt to conceal it. It is difficult to extend to others what you have not been able to give yourself. Take good care of yourself so you can care about the rest of us. — Jennifer James

I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami in their lifetimes. I think it is on the same level as seeing the pyramids in Giza for many people. But, Miami is slippery: It is a place that is always that distant orgiastic green light while also being a hot, tropical, and very real place. — Jim Drain

Friends are true riches! — John Cameron Smith

Creativity is an import-export business. — Ethan Zuckerman