Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.

Fernando Pessoa

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• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Cool
  • Stand

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bond

• I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Career
  • Literature

• When you're rich you don't write checks.

  

  Randy Moss
  • You
  • Write
  • Rich

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Baby

• Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Long
  • Water
  • Problems

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Cricket

• The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • World
  • Law
  • Eyes

• The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Tax

• The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Much
  • Monsters

• I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • World
  • Great
  • School

• I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Think
  • Evil
  • Behavior

• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • War
  • Lost
  • Pain

• I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Pain

• We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: - the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, - the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • She
  • Earth
  • Light

• Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Pain

• Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain