Fernando Pessoa Quotes

A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.

Fernando Pessoa

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• The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • United States
  • Muslim

• I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Know
  • Mirror

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Anxiety
  • Publicity

• I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Pretty
  • Change
  • Curious

• My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Way
  • Looking
  • Speech

• Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Writing
  • Photography
  • Living

• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Justice
  • Charity
  • Legal

• There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Man

• I always dreamed about getting on TV and being part of a team - a funny ensemble.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Funny
  • Team
  • Always

• With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Travel
  • Blood
  • Opportunities

• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kindness

• America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • America
  • War
  • Responsibility

• You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Knowledge
  • New

• Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

  

  Mark Udall
  • Life
  • Business
  • Law

• We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Desire
  • Perform
  • Highway

• The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Today
  • Success

• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

  

  David Starr Jordan
  • Wisdom

• I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.

  

  Nick Valensi The Strokes
  • Good
  • Working
  • Believer

• A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.

  

  Fernando Pessoa