Famous Brazilian Portuguese Quotes & Sayings

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs. — William Osler

God, what had we done? It didn't really matter. Piper had been the kind of friend with whom I didn't have to fill in the spaces with random conversation. It was okay to just be with her. She knew that sometimes I needed that - to not have to take care of anyone or anything, to simply exist in my own space, adjacent to hers. — Jodi Picoult

No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed. — George R R Martin

Nothing happens by chance. — Rosie O'Donnell

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that. — Siri Hustvedt

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career. — Antonio Banderas

The Almighty has His own purposes. — Abraham Lincoln

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough. — John C. Maxwell

The trick is to state what we know in a recognizable fashion but in a way that is slightly off, in a way that arrests us. — Douglas Wilson

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert

Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie. — Rihanna

I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either. — Pia Toscano