Juntando Palavras Quotes

#1. When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

Cloris Leachman

#3. We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.

Buddy Wakefield

#4. Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5. I remember having my tonsils out when I was fifteen and waking up crying historically but not being able to stop. That was quite strange.

Rae Morris

#6. How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Laini Taylor

#7. When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

Josh Billings

#8. After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

Zechariah Chafee

#9. There is nothing as sad, nothing as unutterably sad, as an old man crying.

Jose Saramago

#10. They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

Harry Caray

#11. Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they really need is basic literacy, a cheap computer, and an internet hookup.

Leila Janah

#12. - "What kind of funny?" I asked her. "Funny like a clown onstage? Or funny like a clown hanging around the entrance to a bank?"
-"The bank one.

Lemony Snicket

#13. Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

Daisaku Ikeda

#14. Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

John Donne