Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Nunca amamos ninguém. Amamos, tão-somente, a ideia que fazemos de alguém. É a um conceito nosso – em suma, é a nós mesmos – que amamos.

Fernando Pessoa

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• There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Think
  • Education
  • Problems

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Men
  • Think
  • Doing

• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • English
  • Mother`s

• We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • God
  • Why
  • Him

• I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Very
  • Broke

• I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Long

• Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Friendly
  • Warm
  • Member

• I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Ideas

• You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • You
  • Cancer
  • Actually

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Feel

• When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • You
  • Strategy
  • Investment

• That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Want
  • I Can

• Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• So, we'll go no more a rovingSo late into the night,Though the heart be still as loving,And the moon be still as bright.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Moon

• I love my country, but maybe that's because I'm white and rich. I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit, that I refuse to share with others.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Country

• The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Book
  • Today

• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Very
  • I Can
  • Quietly

• Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • God
  • Nature

• Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

  

  Amanda Peet
  • Bad

• Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Player
  • Thoughts

• Nunca amamos ninguém. Amamos, tão-somente, a ideia que fazemos de alguém. É a um conceito nosso – em suma, é a nós mesmos – que amamos.

  

  Fernando Pessoa