“Muitas pessoas perdem as pequenas alegrias enquanto aguardam a grande felicidade.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 14, de PAULO BUCHSBAUM - Editora Ediouro Publicações, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, nascida Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker , também conhecida por Sai Zhen Zhu foi uma sinologista e escritora estadunidense.
Ganhadora do Prémio Pulitzer de Ficção de 1932, recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 1938.
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“Muitas pessoas perdem as pequenas alegrias enquanto aguardam a grande felicidade.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 14, de PAULO BUCHSBAUM - Editora Ediouro Publicações, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
citado em "Pearl S. Buck; a biography", Volume 2, Theodore F. Harris - John Day Co., 1971
“Quando cessa a vigilância e os esforços dos bons em todo o país, os homens maus predominam.”
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail
citado em "The great quotations" - Página 435, George Seldes - L. Stuart, 1966 - 893 páginas
“De todos os perigos, o maior é subestimarmos o nosso inimigo.”
Variante: De todos os perigos, o maior é o de subestimarmos os nossos inimigos.
“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come into contact with a new idea.”
John Nuveen, as quoted in The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham (2005) by Marshall Shelley, p. 303
Misattributed
Fonte: What America Means to Me (1943), p. 192
"The Creative Mind at Work," William Vaughn Moody Foundation Lecture at the University of Chicago (1935), as quoted in Pearl S. Buck: A Biography, Volume 2 - Her Philosophy as Expressed in Her Letters (1971) by Theodore F. Harris, p. 217.