Mosteiro Do Leitao Quotes

#1. For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Thucydides

#2. I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

Lauren Oliver

#3. We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.

Vincent De Paul

#4. It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

Cesar Chavez

#5. I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

Joss Whedon

#6. Ever step you take is forever.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. When experience becomes a remembrance, that remembrance destroys creative understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

Sam Altman

#9. I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in't: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.

William Shakespeare

#10. There is just no escaping the fact that the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier - or not - is the genuine commitment and active involvement of the person in charge.

Patrick Lencioni

#11. Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones.

Jeff Anderson

#12. The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

Gorgias

#13. I'm not goin' anywhere, Gin. My heart belongs to you. If you're ever ready to give me yours, well, you come find me, darlin'. I'll be waitin'.

Katy Regnery

#14. This is my moment, this is my chance to make a difference, and you know, I just went for the ball, I attacked it, and I went and got it, ... I was gonna catch that ball, regardless of what happens ...

Santana Moss

#15. I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

Sara Paretsky