Estacionamento Condicionado Quotes & Sayings

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. — Amy Tan

The North American situation, while different from the Brazilian one, reflects a similar complexity and ambiguity in the relationship between race and ethnicity. Whereas Brazilians have a great number of terms used to designate people of varying pigmentation, the 'one-drop principle' prevalent in the USA entails that people are either black or white, and that 'a single drop of black blood' (sic) contaminates an otherwise pale person and makes him or her black. Conversely, ethnic identity in the USA is, as mentioned above, not necessarily correlated with 'race'. At the same time, African- American identities are associated — Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce. — John Kenneth Galbraith

If we as Christians do not speak out as authoritarian governments grow from within or come from outside, eventually we or our children will be the enemy of society and the state. No truly authoritarian government can tolerate those who have real absolute by which to judge its arbitrary absolutes and who speak out and act upon that absolute. — Francis A. Schaeffer

It tasted like one of those herbal concoctions that health-food enthusiasts substitute for tea. — Aldous Huxley

You know the old joke: with communism the future is certain, it's just the past that keeps changing? — Patrick McGuinness

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well — Ernest Hemingway,

The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed. — Miranda Liasson

I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing. — Gene Pitney

Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasphemous tunnel with the greasily smooth floors and the degenerate murals aping and mocking the things they had superseded-run back, before we had seen what we did see, and before our minds were burned with something which will never let us breathe easily again! — H.P. Lovecraft

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more ... not average, but everyman about me. — Matt Damon

I wish you a beautiful blessed Father's Day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. — Mao Zedong