orgulho e amor

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. ~Stephen Leacock



Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite. ~Terri Guillemets



The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~Author Unknown



Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. ~Sydney Smith



Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ~Stuart Chase



He was one of the few great rulers whose wisdom increased with his power, and whose spirit grew gentler and tenderer as his triumphs were multiplied. ~James A. Garfield



Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. ~Ezra Pound



The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein



It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~Susan B. Anthony



Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow



A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000. ~Leonard L. Levinson



To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will. ~Stephen MacKenna



Nowhere is there an account or portrait of Christ laughing... he is always stern, serious and as gloomy as a prison guard. Never does one see him laughing until tears appear in his eyes like the roly-poly squint-eyed Buddha guffawing with arms upraised. ~Author Unknown



While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ~Henry C. Link



You know those days when you've got the mean reds.... the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. ~Napoleon I



If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17



We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished? ~Francis Bacon



Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. ~Anatole France



Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855