Tesouros Quotes

#1. Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed

Ann Maxwell

#2. Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Haim Ginott

#3. Only people who claim their own voice can hear the true song of another.

Elizabeth Lesser

#4. The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn't have a clue than there were Republicans.

James Carville

#5. Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

Winifred Holtby

#6. No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

Benjamin Bratt

#7. When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are.

Lewis Black

#8. The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

Yann Martel

#9. It will do her no good to keep herself concealed from me at this moment," said Madame Defarge. "Good patriots will know what that means. Let me see her. Go tell her that I wish to see her. Do you hear?

Charles Dickens

#10. We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.

T. Mills

#11. In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

Arthur Lewis

#12. A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

John Currin