Testemunha Silenciosa Quotes & Sayings

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Example is better than following it. — Ambrose Bierce

Conan O'Brien has talked about how comedians try to emulate their heroes, fall short, and end up doing their own thing. Johnny Carson tried to be Jack Benny but ended up Johnny Carson. David Letterman tried to copy Johnny Carson but ended up David Letterman. And Conan O'Brien tried to be David Letterman but ended up Conan O'Brien. In O'Brien's words, "It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique." Thank goodness. — Austin Kleon

However miserable your situation, there is always something to learn. — Haruki Murakami

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is. — Rachel Joyce

Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking. — Dale Jarrett

She was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before her eyes: that in the absurd raffle-draw that apportioned the destinies of post-colonial African societies two people starting off even as identical twins in the morning might quiet easily find themselves in the evening one as President shitting on the heads of the people and the other a nightman carrying the people's shit in buckets on his head. — Chinua Achebe

Whatever you do, don't do it. — Yul Brynner

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military. — Tim O'Brien

If you fall out of the boat put your feet up, lie back and relax. Your life jacket knows which way is up. Let the river hold you. You won't drown." -Zambezi River Guide. — Brenda Davies

Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race. — Herman Cain

Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means — P.T. Barnum

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has. — Novak Djokovic

No matter what kind of problem I've run into, there's always been a solution for it. Now, obviously, there will be a point where there aren't any more solutions, and I'll have used up my time. We all do. — Dick Cheney