Povos Antigos Quotes & Sayings

Every professional was once an amateur. — Alexander Pope

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. — Charles Caleb Colton

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. — Grace Paley

There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.
But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US! — Eliezer Yudkowsky

the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train ... — Edward St. Aubyn

Behind the incongruity between actual and perceived reality, there always lies an element of intellectual arrogance, of intellectual rigour and dogmatism. 'It is I, not they, who know what poor people can afford', the Japanese industrialist in effect asserted. 'People behave according to economic rationality, as every good Marxist knows,' as Khrushchev implied. This explains why the incongruity is so easily exploited by innovators: they are left alone and undisturbed. — Peter F. Drucker

In the summer of 1776, the average British soldier was 28 years old with seven years experience in the Army. The average American soldier was 20 and had known military life for only six months. — Joseph J. Ellis

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does
if that catch-phrase has any meaning
but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice — Ayn Rand

Many people do not think very often about what they think about. They just let their thoughts live inside their head, without observing or questioning them. — Henry Cloud

Specifically, being impressed with God means that you are: Not limited by human obstacles Not limited by conventional thinking Taking risks to share Christ Changing the scene and not becoming like the scene Being impressed with God and not the scene means looking to Him for what's possible. This is incredibly freeing, because the Bible says that with God, nothing is impossible. Do you really believe that? — David Pierce

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

when your heart was hurting, there was something so hopeful about reading a book filled with love. The — Brittainy C. Cherry