Liberdade Quotes & Sayings

The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I'm too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It's that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don't want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. — Mindy Kaling

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters. — Peter S. Beagle

Happiness begins where selfishness ends. — John Wooden

All law has its essence in causation. — Swami Vivekananda

Be gracious to me, O LORD! — Anonymous

The interplay between farmers and the elements was a poem without words, the echo which would always return to him.
The air could hold the "breeze of the rain" or the "wind of warmth" to the discerning nose.
The stone carved its memory deep into the hands that chiseled it.
Fire was life in the hearth which was the center of home.
Water introduced itself to us from its most natural source in streams and wells. — John O'Donohue

Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. — W. Somerset Maugham

She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed herself automatically while giving birth to Dwayne. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut — Robin Williams

In war the first casualty is the truth. — Aeschylus

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? — Friedrich Schiller

Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the real thing as a picture of the Eiffel Tower. Yes, they sell Russian food on Brighton Beach, and Russian books and videos, and Russian clothes, and there are Russian restaurants and Russian nightclubs, and everybody speaks Russian, but the Russianness of the place is so concentrated that it feels ridiculously exaggerated. Everything Russian on Brighton Beach is too Russian, far more Russian than in real Russia. This is what happens all over Brooklyn. From the Scandinavians of Bay Ridge to the Chinese of Sunset Park, Brooklyn's immigrants go to ridiculous extremes to re-create their homelands only to end up with a vulgar pastiche. — Lara Vapnyar