Fernando Pessoa Quotes

I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.

Fernando Pessoa

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• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Business
  • Magic
  • Reputation

• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Think
  • Pen

• 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Life
  • True
  • Value

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Want
  • Rules

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Words
  • Marriage

• I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.

  

  Halima Aden
  • History
  • Think
  • Oppression

• Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we're not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn't being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Food
  • Eye
  • Cooking

• What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • American
  • Science

• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • True
  • Faith

• Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Rest

• 'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Violence

• And dost thou seek to find the one in two? Only upon the old can build the new; The symbol which you seek is found in you.

  

  Margaret Fuller

• Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

  

  Allan Houston
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Player

• There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• I don't want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Forever

• There's room for everyone, and everyone is wanted and needed. Whoopi showed me that. When I first saw 'The Color Purple,' it was so huge. That was the first time I had seen myself, my mother, my aunts, women that I had known my whole life on-screen. It gives us hope, and it gives us confidence.

  

  Anna Diop
  • Life
  • Time
  • Women

• It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Moments

• We've have chemistry that we've been building with him not playing, so we're trying to fit him in. People can't be so critical of him. I mean, let him play three or five games. Corey's a great player, but he hasn't played in three months, so you've got to give him some time to get back into the swing of things.

  

  Chris Kaman
  • Time
  • Give
  • Chemistry

• I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • School
  • History
  • Drama

• There have been many very successful acquirers, where they've bought up companies, and they've grown their earnings very rapidly, and the stock has appreciated tremendously.

  

  John Paulson
  • Up
  • Stock

• I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.

  

  Fernando Pessoa