
„But that's what I'm saying to you… That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.“
— Khaled Hosseini, livro The Kite Runner
(319) Amir
The Kite Runner (2003)
Me & Rumi (2004)
— Khaled Hosseini, livro The Kite Runner
(319) Amir
The Kite Runner (2003)
— Gloria Steinem American feminist and journalist 1934
Fonte: My Life on the Road
— John C. Maxwell American author, speaker and pastor 1947
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
As quoted by Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980), p. 32.
Attributed in posthumous publications
Variante: "if you want to be a happy man, you should tie your life to a goal, not to other people and not to things." A quote from Ernst Straus' memoir of Einstein in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (1982), p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=CNuwE3NL1QgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA420#v=onepage&q&f=false
— Henry James, Roderick Hudson
Fonte: Roderick Hudson http://www.gutenberg.org/files/176/176.txt (1875), ch. I: Rowland.
— Dinah Craik English novelist and poet 1826 - 1887
Fonte: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
— Kylie Minogue Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter and actress 1968
Interview, Popjustice.com http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4801&Itemid=9
— Michael Savage, livro The Savage Nation
The Savage Nation, 2011(?) (Audio: Michael Savage – Suicide Is Never An Option https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oIjOjPW2OM&feature=youtu.be&t=1m29s)
2011
Contexto: Just remember, it's not heroic to kill yourself, and it's a violation of God's Laws.... The way it was explained to me in my tradition is... you are not your own property. You are God's property.... You have no right to commit suicide, don't even think– it's not an option. See, like in America, everything is "choice". "It's your choice." It's NOT your choice. You have no choice, so don't even think about it. It's not your choice to make. Soon enough, God will come for you, okay? Leave it at that. And every time you have a suicidal ideation, just push it away, it's not you. It's the devil trying to put something inside your head. We live in such a sick society, that the demented people who run the mind games on our heads like you to believe that it's your choice whether to commit suicide or not. It's NOT your choice. It's immoral, and that's the end of it. You don't have to ponder everything like it's a choice. You have children, that's all you need to know. What would the world be like for them if you committed suicide, do you have any idea? What you've gotta do is just get back on the road and keep walking, and don't stare at the chasm. That's all. You stand on the edge of a road, look down at the chasm and you'll get dizzy and fall in. So stop staring at the chasm. Get back on the road, and go back down to the meadow, and be with your family. And go on continue the struggle. That's all there is to it. That's your job. Your job is to struggle until you drop dead. That's it. Stop trying to be happy. The day you stop trying to be happy you might have a chance to live.
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
At a rally in New Hampshire. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/18/priorities-usa-action/priorities-usa-donald-trump-women-ad/ (4 February 2016)
2010s, 2016, February
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Attributed to Emerson in Life’s Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness (2000) by H. Jackson Brown Jr., as well as numerous on-line sources since, the article "The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy But To Matter" at the Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/29/purpose/ indicates that this quote is probably derived from various statements first made by Leo Rosten, including the following words delivered at the National Book Awards held in New York in 1962: "The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all."
Misattributed
— Albert Camus French author and journalist 1913 - 1960
Fonte: "Intuitions" (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)
— Milan Kundera, livro Identity
Identity (1998)
Contexto: As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.<!-- (pg 146)
— Kresley Cole American writer
Fonte: Dark Needs at Night's Edge
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
Luciana Borio, former director of Medical and Biodefense Preparedness Policy at the National Security Council, said at a symposium at Emory University in Atlanta in 2018: "The threat of pandemic flu is the number one health security concern, are we ready to respond? I fear the answer is no." As quoted in Contrary to Trump’s Claim, A Pandemic Was Widely Expected at Some Point https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/contrary-to-trumps-claim-a-pandemic-was-widely-expected-at-some-point/ (March 20, 2020) by Rem Rieder, FactCheck.org.
2020s, 2020, February
— Tony Blair former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953
Michael Ignatieff, "Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?)", New York Times, 5 September, 2003.
2000s
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Fonte: The Power of Myth (book), p.193