Folha A4 Quotes & Sayings

History is never the simple recounting of the past as it really was. It is inevitably an interpretation of the past, a retrospective vision of the past, which is limited both by the sources themselves and by the historian who selects and interprets them. — Timothy George

In physics: It's called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure. — Laura Dave

Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering. — Dean Kamen

I've always got about four albums in my head. — Dan Fogelberg

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway. — Malachy McCourt

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent. — Albert Schweitzer

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong. — Ernest Hemingway,

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise — Akhenaton

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre. — Heraclitus

65It is God who sends water down from the sky and with it revives the earth when it is dead. There truly is a sign in this for people who listen. — Anonymous

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies. — Chad Lowe

Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. The tribute to Caesar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute to God. — Victor Hugo

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life. — John Calvin

With all of the seats empty, you could pretend everyone's just gone to the bathroom. — Chuck Palahniuk

I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe. — George Takei