Peixoto E Quotes & Sayings

I once heard a grouty northern invalid say that a coconut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like a feather-duster struck by lightning. — Mark Twain

Never say anything unless you have to. — John Travolta

With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Heartstorming takes you much further than your brainstorm can conceive. — Lurdes Peixoto

I apologize for my body's reaction," he managed between deep breaths. "That's not how I usually tell a woman I find her attractive." Jake Dalton, Prisoner of Love — Cathy Skendrovich

I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short ... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made. — Chang-rae Lee

Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to. — Jose Luis Peixoto

Fear reminds us we're still alive. Regret will dig us an early grave. — Allison Morgan

I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a kind of sky, so that when we die, when we die, we fall and sink into the sky. — Jose Luis Peixoto

The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it. — Conor McPherson

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life. — Charlie Huston

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure. — Carl Clinton Van Doren

You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part. — Chiang Kai-shek

If you're not proud of what you do, you're not done. — Frank Sonnenberg

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there. — Joan Cusack

One day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love. — Jose Luis Peixoto

The poem doesn't have stanzas, it has a body, the poem doesn't have lines,/ it has blood, the poem is not written with letters, it's written/ with grains of sand and kisses, petals and moments, shouts and/ uncertainties. — Jose Luis Peixoto

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets
'piccoli segreti'
that are simmering on the burners. — Sophia Loren

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest — Zygmunt Bauman

It is easier to apologize than to get permission. — Grace Hopper

Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others. — Jose Luis Peixoto