Partilha De Bens Quotes & Sayings

What a gift it was to be normal! We're all walking on these unseen tightropes when really we could slip at any second and come face to face with all the existential horrors that only lie dormant in our minds. — Matt Haig

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only. — Hilary Mantel

Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking. — Mahatma Gandhi

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality. — Burnett Hillman Streeter

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Even the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from. — Jens Lekman

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal. — Richard Russo

Business has two 'children'. One is called 'loss' and the other 'profit'. No one likes the one called 'loss', but both are indeed there. They are born together. — Dada Bhagwan

Falling and flying are near identical sensations, in all but one final detail. — Don Paterson

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation. — Igor Sikorsky

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat. — Barry Goldwater