Neuza Amaral Quotes & Sayings

The Skeptic's mistake lies in thinking that we should tie our hands behind our backs just because we will not be able to reach rock-hard conclusions. — Frederick Mosteller

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow. — Magnus Magnusson

You get to know someone better not when they talk about themselves, but when they talk about others — S.E. Sever

You have to decide what you want in life and pursue what you want with all your heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them. — Anthony Haden-Guest

I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way. — Stephen Sondheim

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me — Malcolm Muggeridge

There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist. — Hugh Downs

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. — Pete Rose

How will the remaining portion of the community like to have the amusements that shall be permitted to them regulated by the religious and moral sentiments of the stricter Calvinists and Methodists? Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business? This is precisely what should be said to every government and every public, who have the pretension that no person shall enjoy any pleasure which they think wrong. — John Stuart Mill

I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it. — Cherie Blair

I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it? — Richard Hugo

It's never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation. — Laini Taylor

The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind,
the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine. — Adyashanti

One never forgets their true calling, no matter how far they run — Angie Stanton