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

• It’s easy to lose your reputation, it’s easy to lose your friends, to lose their confidence, than to regain it.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Friends
  • Confidence

• 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 started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Up
  • World
  • Faith

• You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Art

• Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Think
  • Receive
  • God's Blessings

• Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Born
  • Eternal
  • Ireland

• For a lot of children of immigrants, what happens is your parents want you to do something very linear that they can understand. I had an aptitude in sciences and never really questioned it.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Immigrants

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

  

  Fernando Pessoa