Portela Quotes & Sayings

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. — Robert Pinsky

Why choose failure when success is always an option? — Jillian Michaels

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. — Al Sharpton

I awoke one morning to find myself famous. — George Gordon Byron

We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth. — Zephyr McIntyre

Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats. — David Suzuki

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make. — Dave Matthews

Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire? — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. — John Updike

Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it. — Niccolo Machiavelli

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well. — Henry Mintzberg

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. — Arthur Mutambara

A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age. — Wolfgang Pauli

Just because he's a guy doesn't mean he and I can't be just friends." "And just because you don't have to insert batteries into him doesn't mean you can't be more. — Nicki Elson