Ondjaki Portugues Quotes & Sayings

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them. — Stuart Chase

Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points. — Edna Ferber

I like things in their proper places. — Alan Sugar

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering. — Gautama Buddha

Every day is judgment day-use it. — Brigham Young

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses. — Anais Nin

We are what we feel and perceive. If we are angry, we are the anger. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I think no matter who you are, no matter what you do in your life, no matter where you come from, you have to fight; we all fight in different ways. And its a metaphor, sometimes its literal, and I really believe that freedom is on the other side of discipline. Your mind can only match where your body is. And so its...you're never mastering it, there's always a lesson--things catch you in unexpected ways. And I think that's a beautiful metaphor for life. — Jake Gyllenhaal

I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me. — Derek Jeter

He gave me a message for you." She tightened her lips as if the words soured her mouth.
"What is it?"
"That you are in his blood."
I looked down at the deck to hide the answering surge within my own blood.
"Those are the words of a lover, Eona. — Alison Goodman

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore. — Harry Anderson