Ninhos De Passaros Quotes & Sayings

Every moment of enjoyment
Brings to some one else a sorrow,
But your sorrow gladdens no one,
For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs. — August Strindberg

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains. — Jean Webster

Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening. — Jeffrey R. Holland

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning. — Orhan Pamuk

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details. — Jorge Luis Borges

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. — Patrick Campbell

He who faces no calamity gains no courage. — Rudyard Kipling

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him. — Tobias Wolff

Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000. — Janine Benyus

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. — Noam Chomsky

He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou, and whatever it was, it was as sweet as a patch of sun on a glossy floor and, like a cat, she just wanted to curl up in it. — Laini Taylor

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed. — Audre Lorde

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler. — Andre Dubus III

Every fiction has its base in fact. — Gayle Forman