Subida Do Douro Quotes & Sayings

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I'm not saying everything else is unimportant. I'm just saying that I've learned to see everything else as optional. — Beth Moore

Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society. — Kishore Bansal

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. — Jorge Luis Borges

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love. — Mira Nair

The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental physics indicates that it should be possible to compute even another billion times more efficiently. That would put the power of all of today's present computers in the palm of your hand. That says to me that the age of computing really hasn't even begun yet. — R. Stanley Williams

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. ( ... regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another. — Hippocrates

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. — Walter Russell

Wouldn't it be great if health-care plans included a list of Buddhist monks among the network providers? — Regina Brett

This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health. — Barack Obama

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine. — Girolamo Savonarola