Silves Portugal Quotes & Sayings

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions. — Steven Saylor

Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them. — Chuck Schumer

There is something living deep within us all that welcomes, even relishes, the role of victimhood for ourselves. There is no cause in the world more righteously embraced than our own when we feel someone has wronged us. Perhaps it is a psychological leftover from early childhood, when we felt the primeval terror of the world around us and yearned for the intervention of a mother/protector to keep us safe. Perhaps it makes it easier to explain away our personal failures when the work of an enemy can be blamed. Perhaps we just get tired of long explanations and like the cleanliness of an easy solution. It is for wiser people than me to say. Whatever its allure, this primitive ideology of Hutu Power swept through Rwanda in 1993 and early 1994 with the speed of flame through dry grass. — Paul Rusesabagina

A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits. — Kathy Baker

I actually remember my grandfather better as a woman than as a man. — John Irving

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it. — Richard Linklater

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness. — Cheryl Strayed

Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you. — El Cordobes

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else? — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. — Izaak Walton

Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution. — Franz Von Papen

You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite. — Anne Fortier