Sobremesas Portuguesas Quotes & Sayings

The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light. — Virginia Woolf

He wants to believe that Shakespeare wrote all those books, that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and the United States fought World War II to rescue the Jews and keep the world safe for democracy, that Jesus and the double feature are coming back. But I'm no Panglossian American. — Paul Beatty

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover? — Arianna Huffington

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. — Roland Barthes

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. — Taryn Manning

Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors'. — Kahlil Gibran

The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them. — J.I. Packer

I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing. — Tori Amos

Well, you finally got me, Helen had whispered to him, tearfully, but Garp had sprawled there, on his back on the wrestling mat, wondering who had gotten whom. — John Irving

But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete. — John Irving

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion ... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! — Czeslaw Milosz

Too many cooks spoil the broth — Jane Austen

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all. — Chely Wright

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened. — Swami Vivekananda

Do you hate her?"
"Almost as much as I lover her." - Dany & Ser Jorah — George R R Martin