Portentoso Significato Quotes & Sayings

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country. — Taslima Nasrin

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers. — Honore De Balzac

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. — Peter Zumthor

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known. — May Sinclair

So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not be achievable at all - or, at best, only intermittently and unconsciously - and may even turn into its opposite if directly pursued, but that it frequently turns up unexpectedly in the course of pursuing something else. There is no tease more infuriating ... It is tempting to forget the whole thing and simply fall back on the couch with a remote control in one hand and a beer in the other. — Michael Foley

A book is the one place you're permitted to feel emotion; anywhere else you're expected to be professional.
And you ask me why I like to read... — Suzanne Steele

The morning after I had my heart bypass, the doctor called and said, Soon you'll be able to have sex. I said, I've heard that for years. — David Letterman

Accept everything, even if it's pain, even if it's sadness, because there's nothing absolute in this world. If everything were to disappear, at least I was thinking it didn't matter anyway. Even if in the future, everyone left me, it would be alright. I would never get hurt. — Jun Mochizuki