Fernando Pessoa Quotes

The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

Fernando Pessoa

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• We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Stop
  • Old
  • Propaganda

• In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Child
  • Development

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Moment

• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Culture
  • Desire
  • Marriage

• I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Name
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Man
  • Saying
  • Exploration

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Day

• I do tend to overdo everything.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Everything
  • Tend
  • Overdo

• If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• I couldn't care less about business.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Business
  • Care
  • Less

• Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Love
  • Marriage

• When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Want
  • Church
  • Saturday

• I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Working
  • Kennedy
  • Ted

• I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Democracy

• A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Heart
  • Blood
  • Begin

• The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • God
  • Religious

• I started out on the stage, then I had a great career in television for quite a few years. The good news about a TV series is that they give you a certain amount of fame and money. The bad news is that you're in people's living rooms every week and get associated with a particular character.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know, I grew up, born on a government blanket under a palm tree. I lived under lantana bushes, I've seen more dinner times than I've seen dinners, I've known discrimination, I've known prejudice, I've known all of those things... but some of that is still with us... and it's got to be changed.

  

  Neville Bonner
  • People
  • Change
  • Fighting

• Adult novels was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

  

  Judy Blume
  • World
  • Teenager
  • Novel

• After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

• We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.

  

  Louise Hart
  • World
  • Simple
  • Needs

• The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

  

  Fernando Pessoa