Paulo Coelho Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
-
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.
-
If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.
-
My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'
-
I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.
-
I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
-
I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.
-
Many of the cannabis producers are very cash rich. They've got the resources to pay a very good wage.
-
I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.
-
I'm not a person that socializes very well.
