Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Enthusiasm is rude.

Fernando Pessoa

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• We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

  

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• When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

  

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• Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

  

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• Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

  

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• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

  

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• The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.

  

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• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'

  

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• Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.

  

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• Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

  

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• God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.

  

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• Fashion is not enough anymore. It's not just about what you wear. I mean, I don't know how many women can afford to take the time to come to Paris for three fittings.

  

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• As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.

  

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• You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.

  

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• I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.

  

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• As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

  

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• When I ran for secretary of agriculture in Iowa in 1996, people... were sure that Iowans would not consider electing a woman to that position.

  

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• Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

  

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• Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped - always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!

  

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• It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

  

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• Sir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the Gentleman that sate next to him, and sayed, Box about, 'twill come to my Father anon. 'Tis now a common used Proverb.

  

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• You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!

  

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• Enthusiasm is rude.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Rude