Olhares De Lisboa Quotes & Sayings

Being a military child, we moved a lot and we developed different vernaculars from moving from the south, to the Midwest, and seeing the world. Going from New York to California and from Jamaica Queens to the South, I was always the new kid, or had the army crew haircut. I expected people to pick up on me. My brother kinda stole all of my old jokes. He got his inspiration from me. — Joe Torry

If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read. — Kami Garcia

We have still not had a death. A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground." he said.
"If I have to die for the rest of you to stay here, I will die" replied Ursula with a soft firmness. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something. — Alicia Keys

Stand by your own honorable convictions before the putrid stench of others permanently stains you. — Hank Bracker

It's OK to consider your own needs. It's OK to worry about how you feel. You don't have to always be a wonderful, charitable person. You can give in. You're selfish. Everything you do is for your own good. And it's OK! — Nicholas Caldwell

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin

If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly. — Meister Eckhart

Well, you know my type," Ty responded with a saccharine smile as he passed Zane's desk. "No self control and loads of mental issues. — Abigail Roux

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils. — Stonewall Jackson

It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come. — Arthur Schnitzler

Rock salt and bread by the doorstep to placate any resident gods. Sandalwood on our pillow, to sweeten our dreams. — Joanne Harris

Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. William Wordsworth, — James Hollis

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body. — Swami Vivekananda