Top 15 Alienista Machado Quotes
#1. Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.
Karen Armstrong
#2. No use, no use!' said the King. 'She runs so fearfully quick. You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch! But I'll make a memorandum about her, if you like-she's a dear good creature,' he repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum-book. 'Do you spell "creature" with a double "e"?
Lewis Carroll
#4. Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith
#5. Writers, when they're good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the world be without good writers?
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#6. Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
Eliphas Levi
#7. I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
Mickey Mantle
#8. Why did she think she had the right to speak to him in this manner? Why did he constantly invite it?
Meredith Duran
#9. To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Simone Weil
#10. I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.
Joss Stone
#11. It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith.
Paulo Coelho
#12. In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.
Jack Weatherford
#13. Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance,
Admire the moments
Discuss the late events,
Correct our watches by the public clocks.
Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks.
T. S. Eliot
#14. It is fairly amazing to reflect that at the beginning of the twentieth century, and for some years beyond, the best scientific minds in the world couldn't actually tell you, in any meaningful way, where babies came from.
Bill Bryson
#15. It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
