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André Breton photo

“Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.”

André Breton livro Anthology of Black Humor

Fonte: Anthology of Black Humor

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“Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”

Winston S. Churchill livro The Second World War

Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 23
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Fonte: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Contexto: Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Samuel Johnson photo

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Fonte: Works of Samuel Johnson

Oscar Wilde photo

“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Anonymous advertising copywriter for Menards chain of hardware stores (2000), according to Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/20/be-yourself
Misattributed

Stephen King photo

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Fonte: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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Agatha Christie photo

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Fonte: An Autobiography

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“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
Um objetivo nem sempre é para ser atingido, muitas vezes ele serve apenas como algo para visar.

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

As translated by Katharine Lyttelton, in Joubert : A Selection from His Thoughts (1899)
Fonte: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121; this likely derives from the observation of Joseph Joubert: The goal is not always meant to be reached, but to serve as a mark for our aim.

Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
As pessoas crescem através da experiência se elas enfrentam a vida honesta e corajosamente. É assim que o caráter é construído.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Agatha Christie photo

“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

Agatha Christie livro Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot
Fonte: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

Jane Austen photo

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
Quanto mais eu conheço o mundo, mais estou convencido de que nunca verei um homem que eu realmente possa amar. Eu preciso muito!

Jane Austen livro Sense and Sensibility

Variante: Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Fonte: Sense and Sensibility

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Abraham Lincoln photo

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.”
Tenha sempre em mente que a sua resolução de atingir o sucesso é mais importante do que qualquer coisa.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Letter to Isham Reavis (5 November 1855)
1850s
Contexto: If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

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“Number rules the universe.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Ernest Hemingway photo

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Variante: There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

Oscar Wilde citar: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
Oscar Wilde photo

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Robert Fulghum photo

“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

Robert Fulghum livro All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fonte: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Contexto: Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Mark Twain photo

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
O perdão é a fragrância que a violeta derrama no calcanhar que bateu nela.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Napoleon Hill photo

“There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.”

Napoleon Hill livro Think and Grow Rich

Fonte: Think and Grow Rich

Henry David Thoreau photo

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
O céu está sob nossos pés e também sobre nossas cabeças.

Henry David Thoreau livro Walden

Fonte: Walden

Robert Fulghum photo

“Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.”

Robert Fulghum livro All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fonte: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Ernest Hemingway photo

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”

Ernest Hemingway livro For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ch 43
Fonte: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Terry Pratchett photo

“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Variante: If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
Fonte: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

William Blake photo

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
Quem nunca altera a sua opinião é como a água parada e começa a criar répteis no espírito.

William Blake livro The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

A Memorable Fancy
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)

Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livro Everything Is Illuminated

Fonte: Everything Is Illuminated

Bruce Lee photo
Mark Twain photo

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

Mark Twain livro Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Fonte: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Stephen King photo

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Variante: Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Fonte: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Abraham Lincoln photo

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow (1955), Speaker's Book of Epigrams and Witticisms
Misattributed

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”

P.G. Wodehouse livro The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)
Fonte: Mostly Sally

Terry Pratchett photo
William Shakespeare photo

“Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Fonte: Measure for Measure

Jean Paul Sartre photo

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
George Gordon Byron photo

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Variante: And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.

Washington Irving photo

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
O amor nunca está perdido. Se não for retribuído, ele irá fluir de volta e suavizar e purificar o coração. El amor nunca se pierde. si no es recíproco, fluirá de regreso y suaviza y purifica la tierra.

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

Attributed to Irving as early as 1883. [Hit and miss : a story of real life, Angie Stewart, Manly, Chicago, J.L. Regan, 1883, i, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018229575?urlappend=%3Bseq=7] However, it does not seem to appear in Irving's known works. Other citations from the same year leave the quotation unattributed. [Henry S. (ed.), Clubb, The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration, Volume 1, Universal Peace Union, 1883, 125, Philadelphia, https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125] [The Australian Women's Magazine and Domestic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1883), 1883, Melbourne, 435, https://books.google.com/books?id=mq0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]. A similar passage is found in a pseudonymous novel published two years earlier in 1881: "Julia knew that sacrifices to patience are not in vain. Although they often do not produce the happiness for which they are made, they will, always, flow back and soften and purify the heart of the one who makes them". [Illma, Or, Which was Wife?, Miss, M.L.A., Cornwell & Johnson, 1881, 239, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017658592?urlappend=%3Bseq=245]
Disputed

Jean Paul Sartre photo

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Henry David Thoreau photo

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”
A linguagem da amizade não é de palavras, mas de significados.

Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Fonte: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Oscar Wilde photo

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Só os sentidos podem curar a alma, tal como só a alma pode curar os sentidos.

Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Andy Warhol photo

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
Não dê atenção ao que eles escrevem sobre você. Apenas meça em polegadas.

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“Why I'm Not Where You Are”

Jonathan Safran Foer livro Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Fonte: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Terry Pratchett photo
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“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Fonte: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Robert Fulghum photo

“It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.”

Robert Fulghum livro All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fonte: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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Oscar Wilde photo

“True friends stab you in the front”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Also found in variants such as "A true friend stabs you in the front".
The earliest known example of this quote comes from Walter Winchell's syndicated newspaper column in mid-January 1955: 'On Broadway, cynically reports Jimmy Nelson, "a true friend is one who stabs you in the front"'
The earliest version of this quote found in Google Books is from 1958, where the quote "A true friend is one who stabs you in the front" is attributed to actor Steve Dunne https://books.google.com/books?id=MF5-AAAAMAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig2JCRnKrMAhUC42MKHaNzCGsQ6AEIHDAA.
In 1981, a similar quote: "He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front" was attributed to Hollywood writer and producer Leonard Levinson https://books.google.com/books?id=Xbe8zbfuVLgC&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjOrQnKrMAhVL2GMKHcQQDSgQ6AEIHTAA.
In 1984, an article in Ms. Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=sfIbAQAAMAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjOrQnKrMAhVL2GMKHcQQDSgQ6AEIJzAC stated that "the Hollywood definition of a friend" was "someone who stabs you in the front".
The earliest attribution to Oscar Wilde was from 1989 https://books.google.com/books?id=CnQJAAAAIAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22+wilde&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22+wilde&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2oqLfnKrMAhVG52MKHXdPANkQ6AEIJTAC: "A good friend is one who stabs you in the front". No source was given.
Disputed
Variante: A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Fonte: e.g. "Broadway and Elsewhere" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/3706522/, Pharos-Tribune (Logansport, IN), 1955-01-16, p. 4

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“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
Mas, quem sabe? Talvez hoje. Cada dia é um novo dia. É melhor ter sorte. Mas eu prefiro fazer as coisas sempre bem. Então, se a sorte me sorrir, estou preparado.

Ernest Hemingway livro O Velho e o Mar

Fonte: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Winston S. Churchill citar: “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
Winston S. Churchill photo

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

This appears to be a variation of a quote often attributed to Caskie Stinnett in 1960, "A diplomat...is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kcycAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=%22A+diplomat+is+a+person+who+can+tell+you+to+go+to+hell+in+such+a+way+that+you+actually+look+forward+to+the+trip.%22 but which appears to have been in common use in the 1950s and is first recorded in the Seattle Daily Times in 1953 as "Diplomat—one who can tell you to go to hades and make you look forward to the trip". http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_diplomat_is_a_person_who_can_tell_you_to_go_to_hell_so_that_you_look_forw/
Misattributed
Variante: Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions

Anatole France photo

“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

Variante: To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Fonte: Discours de réception, Séance De L'académie Française (introductory speech at a session of the French Academy), 24th December 1896, on Ferdinand de Lesseps' work on the Suez Canal.
Contexto: To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Richard Branson photo

“Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.”
Nos negócios, as oportunidades são como ônibus, há sempre um outro vindo.

Richard Branson (1950) English business magnate, investor and philanthropist
John Wooden photo

“Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

They Call Me Coach (1972)
Variante: Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Paulo Coelho photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Quem, sendo amado, é pobre?

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Terry Pratchett photo

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

Terry Pratchett livro A Hat Full of Sky

Fonte: A Hat Full of Sky

Sören Kierkegaard photo

“Once you label me you negate me.”
Uma vez que me rotulam, negam-me. Spanish: Una vez que me has etiquetado me has negado. Variants: Cuando me etiquetas, me niegas. Lo que me etiqueta me niega.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

As attributed in Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, Vol. 2 (1976) by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33; no earlier incidents have been located.
Variants:
When you label me, you negate me.
As attributed in Inner Joy (1985) by Kory Bloomfield, p 169
Disputed
Variante: What labels me, negates me.

William Shakespeare photo

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

William Shakespeare livro Romeu e Julieta

Fonte: Romeo and Juliet

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Friedrich Nietzsche photo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley photo

“The beginning is always today.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Vernor Vinge photo

“So much technology, so little talent.”

Vernor Vinge livro Rainbows End

Fonte: Rainbows End (2006)

William Faulkner photo

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Paris Review interview (1958)
Contexto: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Shunryu Suzuki photo

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Prologue
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)
Variante: In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few
Fonte: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Terry Pratchett photo
Anne Lamott photo

“… the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Fonte: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Ray Bradbury photo

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

Ray Bradbury livro Ray Bradbury

As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996, interview by Misha Berson, in ', credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=ZqqUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22people+to+stop+reading%22#search_anchor), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93
Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_peoria.html, interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000)
Contexto: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ernest Hemingway photo

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
Quando as pessoas falarem, ouça-as completamente. A maioria das pessoas nunca escutam.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Annie Dillard photo

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Fonte: " The Writing Life http://www.tikkun.org/mediagallery/download.php?mid=20090505114218282" (link is to PDF download), Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988

Confucius photo

“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Variante: When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.

Marcus Aurelius photo

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
Muitas vezes, questionei como é que todo homem ama a si mesmo mais do que todo o resto dos homens, mas ainda assim atribui menos valor à sua própria opinião sobre si mesmo do que à opinião dos outros.

Marcus Aurelius livro Meditações

Fonte: Meditations

Stephen King photo

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”

Stephen King livro 'Salem's Lot

Variante: Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym…
Fonte: 'Salem's Lot

Jack Kerouac photo

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”

Jack Kerouac livro On the Road

Not a Kerouac quote, but by Jon Krakauer, from his nonfiction book Into the Wild (1996).
Misattributed
Fonte: On the Road

Mark Twain photo

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Uma mentira pode dar a volta ao mundo, enquanto a verdade ainda calça seus sapatos.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Variante: A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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