Embrulhos Quotes & Sayings

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. — Richard Reeves

I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off. — Stephen King

For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties. — Joseph Alleine

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two. — Frederick Lenz

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again. — Jared Harris

They don't teach this at medical school, but I've seen it in real life. People dying in bits and pieces. A series of petites morts. Little deaths. They lose their sight, their hearing, their independence. Those are the physical ones. But there're others. Less obvious, but more fatal. They lose heart. They lose hope. They lose faith. They lose interest. And finally, they lose themselves. — Louise Penny

Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widowed me and murdered me and resurrected me whole a thousand times over with each hour. — Catherynne M Valente

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right. — Bing Crosby

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea. — Monique Truong

I wouldn't be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq. — Hunter S. Thompson

The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough. — Amy Carmichael

If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope. — Dalai Lama

So the next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. — Pema Chodron

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it. — Nick Hornby