Impulsionando Quotes & Sayings

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy. — Henry David Thoreau

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face. — Virginia Graham

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle. — Giacomo Casanova

We do not become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon. — Yuval Noah Harari

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do. — Otis Rush

Government cannot be your parent. — Jesse Ventura

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband. — Phyllis Diller

Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it - every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging. — Ashton Applewhite

We can be "heroes" just for one day. — David Bowie

The east is not for me
the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes. — D.H. Lawrence

A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests. — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation. — Paulo Freire

I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit. — Christoffer Boe

What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. — Eckhart Tolle