Olhos Castanhos Quotes & Sayings

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was. — Ruth Reichl

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys. — Dolly Parton

Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen. — Greg Proops

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others. — Tris Speaker

Worship is exclusionary. You cannot compromise on worship. Worship — Ravi Zacharias

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss — Meister Eckhart

The more I keep myself occupied and jump from thing to thing, the more I think it enriches both. — Fred Armisen

we don't work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from blame when the work inevitably doesn't get done on time. — Tom DeMarco

Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't know the truth. But power knows the truth just as well, if not better, than the powerless know the truth. Enron knows what it's doing. We don't have to tell it what it's doing. We have to tell other people what Enron is doing. Similarly, the people who are building the dams know what they're doing. The contractors know how much they're stealing. The bureaucrats know how much they're getting in bribes.
Power knows the truth. There isn't any doubt about that. It is really about telling the story. Good fiction is the truest thing that ever there was. Facts are not necessarily the only truths. Facts can be fiddled with by economists and bankers. There are other kinds of truth. It's about telling the story. As a writer, that's the best thing I can do. It's not just about digging up facts. — Arundhati Roy

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth. — Thomas S. Monson

His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death. — Edward St. Aubyn

Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar. — Julian Barnes