Sobremesa De Abacaxi Quotes & Sayings

N every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and the sky surrounds me. I'm overpowered by its scale. It's so vast and so far away that my own insignificance becomes palpable. But I don't feel rejected by the sky. I'm a part of it - tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity. And when I concentrate in the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty out aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us. — Carl Sagan

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself. Those are a few nuggets randomly selected from thousands of e-mails written in response to my column suggesting that Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down. Who says public discourse hasn't deteriorated? — Kathleen Parker

Aunt Claire, may I ask you a question?" "Ask away, young Jedi. — Jeanne Birdsall

Liberty is security. Freedom is security. — Jesse Ventura

Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures. — Richard Matheson

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. — Gloria Steinem

We vote for a presidential candidate without saying, Why not run the country for a month and then we'll see . — Seth Godin

But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others. — Leo Tolstoy

The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore. — Bill Ayers

Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched. — David Mitchell

The stars were extra bright tonight, and they shone and glimmered as if each one had something it wanted to say. — Chris Kurtz

It figured my family would get along better with Clark than they did me. — Gwenda Bond

Dream 2 Defy! Extreme is not a style but a way of life. — Jeff Hardy

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils. — Theophile Gautier

A friend is, as it were, a second self. — Marcus Tullius Cicero