Fernando Pessoa Quotes

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

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• The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • War
  • Military

• If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Past
  • Audience
  • Young

• I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • America
  • Indian

• There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Man
  • Black

• I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Coming

• I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Foundation

• A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Son

• I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Brain
  • Cancer
  • Questions

• I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• Combining technology and fashion shouldn't be about PR gimmicks - they should genuinely enhance the experience of buying, owning and experiencing a luxury product.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Fashion

• There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits-two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Up
  • May
  • Identity

• I do not deny the importance of truthfulness, but sometimes an untruth, which benefits someone, may turn out to be a better alternative. It is better to have an impeccable characterbut it is more important to spread love and compassion.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Important
  • May
  • Compassion

• Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Truth

• It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Single

• Nadine, honey is that you? Oh, Nadine, honey is that you? Seems like every time I see you Darling, you got something else to do

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time

• I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.

  

  Steve Hockensmith
  • American
  • Sausage
  • Biscuits

• To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Say
  • False

• When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Trying
  • High

• But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Positive

• Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Voice
  • Differences

• A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

  

  Fernando Pessoa