Esclarecido Portugues Quotes & Sayings

It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete. — Chuck Thompson

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them. — William Hazlitt

Valentine's Day - a nice holiday because it's the first day of the rest of your wife. — Milton Berle

If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting. — Elliott Abrams

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it. — Richard Jenkins

Guys that hot were used to getting any girl they wanted and, to me, relationships didn't have room for super-sized egos. — Veronica Blade

Kosciusko. - The hero of Poland once wished to send some bottles of good wine to a clergyman at Solothurn; and as he hesitated to trust them by his servant, lest he should smuggle a part, he gave the commission to a young man of the name of Zeltner, and desired him to take the horse which he himself usually rode. On his return, young Zeltner said that he never would ride his horse again unless he gave him his purse at the same time. Kosciusko enquiring what he meant, he answered, "As soon as a poor man on the road takes off his hat and asks charity, the horse immediately stands still, and will not stir till something is given to the petitioner; and as I had no money about me, I was obliged to feign giving something, in order to satisfy the horse." Mysterious — Various

I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories - stories that I'll never know if she wrote or only imagined writing. She'd wanted me to tell her a secret from my dreams, a secret from my dreams I hadn't had as yet, and so I didn't quite understand what she was after.
"It's about feeling," Camille had insisted.
I didn't understand then that she was talking about risk. — Stuart Dybek

Don't become a jerk. Don't get lazy. Don't get entitled. — Jon Acuff

Not everything worth learning is summarized in book. Sometimes you've got to rely on instincts. — Samanthe Beck

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver

I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan. — Cheyenne Jackson