Punhos Cerrados Quotes & Sayings

The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions. — Richard Brautigan

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. — Dawn French

I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue. — Brad Thor

It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead. — Dalia Grybauskaite

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification. — Margaret Thatcher

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Cross felt that at the heart of all political movements the concept of the basic inequality of man was enthroned and practiced, and the skill of politicians consisted in how cleverly they hid this elementary truth and gained votes by pretending the contrary — Richard Wright

No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault. — Patrick Lencioni

Finally, leaders focus on people. In the words of Grace Murray Hopper, computer scientist and rear admiral in the US Navy, "You manage things; you lead people." Naturally, — Jocelyn Davis

You know your husband truly loves you when he calls you, "Money, I'm home! — Natalya Vorobyova

When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up. — Pattie Mallette

The inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy. — Daphne Du Maurier

Capital punishment ... treats members of the human race ... as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan

The other part of me wanted to get out and stay out, but this was the part I never listened to. Because if I ever had I would have stayed in the town where I was born and worked in the hardware store and married the boss's daughter and had five kids and read them the funny paper on Sunday morning and smacked their heads when they got out of line and squabbled with the wife about how much spending money they were to get and what programs they could have on the radio or TV set. I might even get rich - small-town rich, an eight-room house, two cars in the garage, chicken every Sunday and the Reader's Digest on the living room table, the wife with a cast-iron permanent and me with a brain like a sack of Portland cement. You take it, friend. I'll take the big sordid dirty crooked city. — Raymond Chandler

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration. — Matthew Arnold