Fernando Pessoa Quotes

I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?

Fernando Pessoa

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Respect
  • Woman
  • Try

• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Trying
  • Become
  • Harm

• I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Influence

• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  

  Ian Rush
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Time
  • Past
  • Savage

• I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Good
  • Age
  • Good Things

• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Exercise
  • Motherhood
  • Guilt

• Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Feel Good

• I'm not a violent person.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Person
  • Violent

• I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Broken
  • Immigration

• I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Democracy

• Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Gay

• My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • True
  • Dream
  • Summer

• I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Why
  • Know
  • Best

• Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Child

• There's a killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Brain

• A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

  

  Livy

• I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Hope
  • Society

• I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• Look at the teams we played when I was not there - Indy, Minnesota, Green Bay, Philadelphia - that's four playoff teams right there. I don't think it's a significant statistic. We just have to play better when I'm not in there or play easier teams.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Teams
  • Philadelphia
  • Minnesota

• To me, the money is – it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Money
  • Wonderful
  • Bless

• I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?

  

  Fernando Pessoa