Verissimo Quotes

#1. Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

Anatoli Boukreev

#2. Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.

Craig Groeschel

#3. But she sounded like the weight of the sky had just been lifted off her shoulders - and believe me, I know firsthand how that feels.

Rick Riordan

#4. I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.

Mindy Kaling

#5. Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

#6. There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

Jim McDermott

#7. You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.

Suzanne Collins

#8. She kept it all inside, she pretended it was all normal while she fought not to drown and dared not cry. Not where they could see.

Lucian Bane

#9. I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. Oh, well
he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Winston S. Churchill

#11. You do mean it, then," I said. "You feel ... er ... betrothed to her?" "Well, of course he does, Sassenach," Jamie said, reaching for another slice of toast. "He left her his dog.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. The heroes pop out at you, impossibly vivid, colorful as playing cards but all from different decks, a jumble of incompatible suits and denominations dealt out for an Alice in Wonderland game.

Austin Grossman

#13. Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

#14. Excessive symmetry is either unnatural and conceals some human thought behind it, or else supernatural and conceals some mystery.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

#15. All publicity works upon anxiety.

John Berger

#16. It is possible to stop the mental chatter, regain your emotional balance and live free of stress and anxiety when you create a new habit of daily energetic self-care using the four powerful tools in Nurturing Wellness through Radical Self-Care.

Janet Gallagher Nestor

#17. There can be such a sky, and such
A play of rays, that our heart feels
An insult to a doll is more
Piteous than an insult to oneself.

("It Happened at Vallen-Koski")

Innokenty Annensky