Paulo Coelho Quotes

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Paulo Coelho

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• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • True
  • Words
  • Moral

• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Girl
  • You
  • Chinese

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Think

• If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Parents
  • Boat
  • Italy

• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Man
  • Black
  • Best

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Real
  • Green
  • Down

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Game
  • Me
  • Dark

• If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • True
  • Man
  • Friend

• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Childhood
  • Nobody
  • Where

• I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Society
  • Revolution
  • Innovation

• People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

  

  Zola Jesus
  • People
  • Dark
  • Understand

• I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

  

  Mario Vazquez
  • Latin

• I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Dream
  • Surprise

• I'd thought it would be something like King's Road London, only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers.

  

  George Harrison The Beatles
  • Happy
  • Nice
  • Road

• Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Reason
  • Body
  • Common Sense

• You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Choices