Fernando Pessoa Quotes

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

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• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
  • Well
  • Manager

• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Own

• I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Morning
  • Everyday
  • Shoes

• Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Think

• In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • System
  • Russia
  • Soviet

• You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Team
  • Games

• We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Work
  • Air

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• Allu Arjun is one of the most stylish actors. We should take care of our looks when acting with him because he wears the best of costumes, and if we don't take care, we would look like a housemaid beside him.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Best
  • Care
  • Acting

• Some people can act Hollywood and others don't. I just try to live my life as a normal, everyday man. At times, fame does get to you. But you must stay positive and remember two things: It's easier to be happy, and without all those fans, life wouldn't be as good as it is.

  

  Chumlee
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others we will do nothing to benefit ourselves.

  

  Carl Holmes
  • Happy
  • Service
  • Benefit

• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Groups

• Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

  

  David Mamet
  • English

• The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Happy