Tem Quotes

1. "We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire."
Author: Alain De Botton

2. "A lot of excellent illustrators are working at the moment--especially in fantasy and children's books. It is exciting also to see graphic artists such as Dave McKean, in his film Mirrormask, moving between different media. I also greatly admire the more traditional work of Gennady Spirin and Roberto Innocenti. Kinuko Craft, John Jude Palencar, John Howe, Charles Vess, Brian Froud ... I'll stop there, as the list would get too long. But--in a fit of pride and justified nepotism--I'll add my daughter, Virginia Lee, to the list. Her first illustrated children's book, The Frog Bride [coming out in the U.K. in September, 2007], will be lovely."
Author: Alan Lee

3. "Creen estar en una posición de fuerza porque nos ven y nosotros no les vemos a ustedes. Se equivocan, ¡les veo! Miren mi ojo, leerán en él tanto desprecio que tendrán la prueba de ello; ¡les veo! Veo a aquellos que nos miran estúpidamente, también veo a los que creen mirarnos inteligentemente, a los que dicen: "Miro para ver hasta dónde pueden llegar los que se rebajan", y que, al hacerlo, se rebajan todavía más que ellos. ¡El ojo estaba dentro de la televisión y les miraba! ¡Van a verme morir sabiendo que les estoy viendo!"
Author: Amélie Nothomb

4. "I knew that even though he was way into mood-altering substances and he had this really bad temper that there was something really beautiful inside him. Just because no one else could see it didn't mean it wasn't there."
Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz

5. "...l'imperfezione va oltre. E' tolleranza, rispetto dell'usato e attenzione ai segni del tempo. E' capacita' di badare alla merce, e non alla confezione."
Author: Beppe Severgnini

6. "Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling."Jace!" She flew at him and hugged him. Now that was the way sisters were supposed to act, Clary thought. Not all stiff and weird and peculiar, but happy and loving. Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression."Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.""I'm fine." Clary abandoned the attempt."Are you sure? You looked sort of… contorted."
Author: Cassandra Clare

7. "It was shaping up to be one of a handful of days in my life that filled me with the kind of anticipation and excitement that makes your anus tingle ever so slightly."
Author: Chad Kultgen

8. "Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect."
Author: Charles Krauthammer

9. "Non c'era tempo da perdere. Iniziai a correre per il vicolo che portava alla strada del college. Avrei solo controllato il suo stato, una controllata veloce e poi… poi me ne sarei andato. Andato per sempre stavolta. St. Jillian non era più casa mia e mai più lo sarebbe stata. Dovevo solo essere certo che lei fosse viva, solo che lei… lei… Due fari accecanti. Una frenata assordante. Mi girai automaticamente. Le mani contro il parabrezza bloccarono l'avanzata del maggiolone verde. I suoi occhi. I suoi occhi. I suoi occhi."
Author: Chiara B. D'Oria

10. "Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. When I got free, I decided that the problem wasn't the system, but who was running it. Bad guys had gotten into places of high office. We needed good apples. I worked my butt off to get people to vote for good apples. We had elections. We installed the kind of apples everyone agreed would be the kind of apples we could be proud of. They said good things. A few real dirtbags like Carrie Johnstone lost their jobs. And then, well, the good apples turned out to act pretty much exactly like the bad apples. Oh, they had reasons. There were emergencies. Circumstances. It was all really regrettable. But there were always emergencies, weren't there?"
Author: Cory Doctorow

11. "My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach "normal" has brought me to ponder whether "normal" even exists, or if it is nothing more than delusional grandeur based in the sounds of those sweet sirens drawing my ship in all the wrong directions."
Author: Dan Pearce

12. "Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace."
Author: Dejan Stojanovic

13. "Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions"
Author: Douglass B. Reeves

14. "It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing."
Author: Elmore Leonard

15. "I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification."
Author: G.K. Chesterton

16. "One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past."
Author: George Crumb

17. "I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
Author: Georges Simenon

18. "When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge."
Author: Gerald Jampolsky

19. "The name Kyirong means "the village of happiness," and it really deserves the name. I shall never cease thinking of this place with yearning, and if I can choose where to pass the evening of my life, it will be in Kyirong. There I would build myself a house of red cedar wood and have one of the rushing mountain streams running through my garden, in which every kind of fruit would grow, for though its altitude is over 9,000 feet, Kyirong lies on the twenty-eighth parallel. When we arrived in January the temperature was just below freezing it seldom falls below -10 degrees Centigrade. The seasons correspond to the Alps, but the vegetation is subtropical. Once can go skiing the whole year round, and in the summer there is a row of 20,000-footers to climb."
Author: Heinrich Harrer

20. "In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger?"
Author: Helen Oyeyemi

21. "Will fluorine ever have practical applications?It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that I gave this subject little thought when I undertook my researches, and I believe that all the chemists whose attempts preceded mine gave it no more consideration.A scientific research is a search after truth, and it is only after discovery that the question of applicability can be usefully considered."
Author: Henri Moissan

22. "I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different."
Author: Jackie Joyner Kersee

23. "Ela não tem amizade por mim. Nem ternura. Nem estima. Ela me ama, simplesmente: qual de nós dois é o pior?"
Author: Jean Paul Sartre

24. "Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is."
Author: Jennifer Michael Hecht

25. "Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain. Every man is broken into twenty-four-hour fractions, and then again within those twenty-four hours. It's a daily pantomime, one man yielding control to the next: a backstage crowded with old hacks clamoring for their turn in the spotlight. Every week, every day. The angry man hands the baton over to the sulking man, and in turn to the sex addict, the introvert, the conversationalist. Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots."
Author: Jonathan Nolan

26. "Saberíamos muito mais das complexidades da vida se nos aplicássemos a estudar com afinco as suas contradições em vez de perdemos tanto tempo com as identidades e as coerências, que essas têm obrigação de explicar-se por si mesmas."
Author: José Saramago

27. "I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that."
Author: Joseph Kosinski

28. "- O vento também é eterno. Nunca acaba. Quando o vento entra no nosso corpo, nascemos, e, quando sai, é porque morremos, por isso temos de ser amigos do vento.- E...este...- Já nem sabes o que perguntar. É melhor guardares silêncio, não gastes a tua saliva. A saiva é água sagrada que o coração cria. A saliva não deve gastar-se em palavras inúteis porque então estaremos a desperdiçar a água dos deuses e olha, vou dizer-te uma cois que não deves esquecer: se as palavras não servirem para humedecer os outros a lembrança e conseguir que aí floresça a memória de deus, não servem para nada."
Author: Laura Esquivel

29. "Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred."
Author: M. Kathleen Casey

30. "I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year."
Author: Madhur Bhandarkar

31. "Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine. The thought, the need, the reaction was overpowering. Leslie looked up. "This one." she said. "I need this one.But the image is more than just tempting art, and it draws her into a world of shadows and desire- into the world of Faerie."
Author: Melissa Marr

32. "Cynicism is overrated, and far too easy. In small doses, cynicism--like irony--provides an essential tempering quality. But to wallow in it, and to dismiss things like hope and faith, is cowardly and unoriginal."
Author: Michael Perry

33. "If you Surrender to temptation thenweak is your soul, for you like grassthat alows the wind to be its "controlfreak". A strong soul knows what itwants and adheres to its principles likea tree that stands still despite thecondition."
Author: Morgan Chabane

34. "Separarse de la tierra y contemplarla desde arriba como los dioses es una blasfemia. No podemos ser dioses... pero podemos llegar a ser menos que humanos con aterradora facilidad."
Author: N.K. Jemisin

35. "Îmi zisese într-o zi: "Nu, domnule, eu nu ma tem de moarte. Vina cînd va dori. Usa e deschisa, nu trebuie nici macar sa bata. E destul s-o împinga si sa-mi spuna: «Buna ziua, domnule»... asta-i singura conditie pe care i-o pun, sa mi se adreseze politicos... «am venit sa va poftesc cu mine». Poate ca tot din politete o voi întreba «unde?», fara sa astept un raspuns, deoarece stiu ca n-ar avea ce sa-mi raspunda. Dupa care formalitatile ar fi încheiate si m-as pregati de calatorie, iertîndu-i pe toti, uitîndu-i si lasîndu-i si pe ei sa ma uite"..."
Author: Octavian Paler

36. "Mis esfuerzos por intentar borrarlo de mi pensamiento me impedían lograrlo. Temía tanto no poder lograrlo, que este mismo miedo me lo recordaba constantemente"
Author: Oscar Wilde

37. "I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore."
Author: Patrick Duffy

38. "Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life."
Author: Phil Ochs

39. "When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge."
Author: Raymond Floyd

40. "Ne pas succomber aux caresses n'est, hélas, pas une solution, car ne pas y succomber occupe plus de notre temps qu'y succomber."
Author: Réjean Ducharme

41. "Il est bon de savoir quelque chose des moeurs de divers peuples, afin de juger des notres plus sainement et que nous ne pensions pas que tout ce qui est contre nos modes soit ridicule et contre raison, ainsi qu'ont coutume de faire ceux qui n'ont rien vu; mais lorsqu'on emploie trop de temps à voyager on devient enfin étranger en son pays; et lorsqu'on est trop curieux des choses qui se pratiquaient aux siècles passés, on demeure ordinairement fort ignorant de celles qui se pratiquent en celui-ci."
Author: René Descartes

42. "Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost."
Author: Richard Grasso

43. "That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts."
Author: Ricky Skaggs

44. "Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango tree in the evening's profound darkness, in which only the trembling voices of old men resound, because the women and children are silent, raptly listening. That is what the evening hour is so important: it is the time when the community contemplates what it is and whence it came."
Author: Ryszard Kapuściński

45. "Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld."
Author: Sarah Churchwell

46. "I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken."
Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

47. "Did you know Carrie White is going to the prom?"Morty blinked. "With who? The Beak?" The Beak was Freddy Holt, another of Ewen's misfits. He weighed perhaps one hundred pounds soaking wet, and the casual observer might be tempted to believe that sixty of it was nose."
Author: Stephen King

48. "La huerta se había enterado de que en la antigua barraca de Barret el único objeto de valor era una escopeta de dos cañones, comprada recientemente por el intruso con esa pasión africana del valenciano, que se priva gustoso del pan por tener detrás de la puerta de su vivienda un arma nueva que excite envidias e inspire respeto."
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

49. "Amar a si mesmo significa aceitar-se como alguém que tem valor porque decidiu ter valor."
Author: Wayne W. Dyer

50. "I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress."
Author: Wen Jiabao

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