Lusofona Quotes & Sayings

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. — Audre Lorde

Meditation is listening the inner song. The song of Love, Peace and Light — Amit Ray

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it — Simon Barnes

If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big. — Paulo Coelho

No tribe unites with another of its own free will. — Arthur Keith

His hands were tingling and he was sweating under falling snowflakes. — David Rangel

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her?
MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove?
LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably. — Oscar Wilde

Yes, the laws of self-preservation and of self-destruction are equally powerful in this world. The devil will hold his empire over humanity until a limit of time which is still unknown. You laugh? You do not believe in the devil? Scepticism as to the devil is a French idea, and it is also a frivolous idea. Do you know who the devil is? Do you know his name? Although you don't know his name you make a mockery of his form, following the example of Voltaire. You sneer at his hoofs, at his tail, at his horns - all of them the produce of your imagination! In reality the devil is a great and terrible spirit, with neither hoofs, nor tail, nor horns; it is you who have endowed him with these attributes! But ... he is not the question just now! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation. — Patricia Wentworth

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. — Margaret Mead

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. — Robert Penn Warren

Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845) — John Ruskin

The beginning of her story is lost to us, with the memory of the world from which she sprang. The end? The end is not yet, and when it comes we shall not know it. We have only the middle, or rather a piece of that middle, the smallest part of the legend, a mere fragment of the quest. — George R R Martin

Dare we ask what made you willing to suffer the furry disgrace? — Shannon Messenger