Quintas No Douro Quotes & Sayings

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends. — Debasish Mridha

Thor regaled me with his theories about a hypothetical death match between Daryl from The Walking Dead and Mike from Breaking Bad. — Rick Riordan

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology. — Dan Barber

Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations. — Adam Driver

It's funny, I wonder why we like being praised. There's no money in it. Fame? How famous could we get? ... Aren't humans absurd? I suppose we like praise for its own sake. The way children like ice cream. It's an inferiority complex, that's what it is. Praise assuages our insecurities. And ridiculously so. — Arkady Strugatsky

When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within
a spirit of growth and beauty. — Helen Keller

No matter how hard it seems ... never give up, always believe. — Yolanda Adams

There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life. — Elizabeth Wein

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason. — Geoff Mulgan

The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be. — Rick Warren

Failure cannot be erased. It is built in to a life and helps us grow. Failure cannot be erased, but it can be understood.
Most people carry around a load of feeling that they bury or pretend is not there because it is too painful and alarming to cope with or because it involved unbearable guilt. Anger against a parent, for example.
I knew the tide of woe was rising, that woe that seizes me like anger, and is a form of anger, and I didn't know what to do to stop it, so I got up and picked flowers, cooked my dinner, looked at the news, all the same usual routine that can ward off the devils or suddenly clear the air as when a thunderstorm seems to be coming and then dissipates ... .it always happens when there is a galaxy of problems that get knit together into one huge outcry against the sense of being abandoned or orphanhood ... — May Sarton

The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you. — Joe Eszterhas

Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are. — St. Gregory The Great

The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching. — Armando Iannucci

We need consistency and predictability, and a sense of proper placement. We need these things before we can mold the world into what we know it can be. — Allan Dare Pearce