Sopros De Madeira Quotes & Sayings

We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. — William Safire

The United States should get rid of its militias. — Joseph Stalin

Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise — Tracy L. Conway

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. — Confucius

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story. — Alber Elbaz

By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that 'Noah's boy' was a slice of ham (since Ham was one of Noah's sons) and that 'burn one' or 'grease spot' designated a hamburger. 'He'll take a chance' or 'clean the kitchen' meant an order of hash, 'Adam and Eve on a raft' was two poached eggs on toast, 'cats' eyes' was tapioca pudding, 'bird seed' was cereal, 'whistleberries' were baked beans, and 'dough well done with cow to cover' was the somewhat labored way of calling for an order of toast and butter. Food that had been waiting too long was said to be 'growing a beard'. Many of these shorthand terms have since entered the mainstream, notably BLT for a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, 'over easy' and 'sunny side up' in respect of eggs, and 'hold' as in 'hold the mayo'. — Bill Bryson

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here. — Renny Harlin

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.
January 1830 — Daniel Webster

Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that. — Dean Spade

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey

The best which entailed from parents to children, is the good behavior. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of. — Alice Sebold