Jose Saramago Quotes

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Jose Saramago

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• I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Want
  • Food
  • Junk Food

• Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Love
  • Novel
  • Thanked

• Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Want
  • Me
  • Decisions

• The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Seven

• I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Feel

• There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Support
  • Risk
  • Yourself

• Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Career
  • Season
  • Winners

• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Music
  • Art

• I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Country
  • Best
  • Training

• Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Safe
  • Meat
  • Ever

• I want to get off with the screenwriting.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Want
  • Off
  • Screenwriting

• The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do.

  

  Edwin Arnold

• It was an axiom of 'containment' that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. 'Neutralism' was among the Cold Warriors' gravest curse words, applied with caustic hostility to India and even France. Those who were not with were against, subjected to intense economic and ideological - and sometimes military - pressure to fall into line.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • World
  • Words
  • Fall

• The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Hate

• When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Priority

• What I do now is I train in the mornings, and people ask me why I do it. I do it for two reasons: first of all, to keep in shape, but secondly, I think training, sport, and physical activity is really good for mental health.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Changes

• I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

  

  Akhil Sharma
  • People
  • Life

• These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Truth

• As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

  

  Jose Saramago