Tornezeleira Quotes & Sayings

Does it not seem to you at times, when
Twilight walks through the house , that
Right here alongside us is another element,
In which we live quite differently?

("A Candle Is Brought In") — Innokenty Annensky

The belly craves food, she thinks,
The tongue craves water,
The heart craves love, and
The mind craves stories. — David Mitchell

We place this huge burden on answers to function as finish lines, when they more naturally perform as milestones. We fool ourselves if we believe that answers are the proper response to questions, when the formal acknowledgment of a question is to embrace its invitation to enter into the journey of learning. — Tristan Sherwin

If a student works rigorously, no topic is truly foolish, and the student can draw useful conclusions even from a remote or peripheral topic. — Umberto Eco

If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism. — Evo Morales

MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi' — Satyajit Ray

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else. — Alice Munro

His expression was impassive. Somewhere, I just knew, he must have a slew of illegitimate children, all named Bartholomew. — Catherine Lowell

But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for ... or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place. — J.R. Ward

[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art. — Tertullian

I'm obsessed with cheese and milk, but eliminating them from my diet made the biggest difference. In a month and a half, I lost 11 pounds just from not eating dairy, without doing anything else different, and that totally blew my mind. — Khloe Kardashian

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Then the sunlight burst into the room through the venetian blinds; I breathed hard, filling my lungs with air. I could see my feet, my arms; there I was. I tried hard to get back in my body again ... it was such a long way to my feet. — Sylvia Plath

A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications for human health and child development. They say the quality of exposure to nature affects our health at an almost cellular level. — Richard Louv