Paulo Coelho Quotes

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

Paulo Coelho

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• If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Career
  • Me

• I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Kindness

• There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Great
  • Inspire

• Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Children

• It’s these guys in the Ivy League schools who get used to obeying women. They’re sedentary guys. It’s ironic that you’re getting the biggest bitching about men from the schools where the men are just eunuchs and bookworms.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Ironic

• Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Money
  • Soul

• In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.

  

  Cristiano Ronaldo
  • People
  • Mind

• I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I’d have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.

  

  John Mayer
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Home

• I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Guy

• In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Wife
  • Mood

• But these guys were also so pitiful—I pictured them sitting in their La-Z-Boys, working up the courage to make their obscene call, maybe jacking off after from all the excitement, if not during—I couldn’t really take them seriously, or only took them seriously as specimens of the ugly fragility of masculinity.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Pictures
  • Excitement
  • Fragility

• Don't just cope, walk in victory.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Victory

• They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Night
  • Light
  • Darkest

• Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Up

• I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• I'm not a person that socializes very well.

  

  Paulo Coelho