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Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Fernando Pessoa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: portuguese
Birth: June 13, 1888 - November 30, 1935

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Success Potential Ground Successful

They want to wipe - in fact, the Democrat Party in their own platform last year wiped even - any reference to God completely from their platform.

John Fleming

God Year Party Want Own Democrat

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Sonia Sotomayor

You Afraid Own Where Different Mine

We are the hero of our own story.

Mary McCarthy

Hero Story Own Our

Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.

Michael Trucco

Work Law Law Enforcement Acting Some

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't care about how their food was grown but who did care about their health.

Michael Pollan

Health Food Past People Writing

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

Jonathan Shapiro

Ideas Book Sketch Keep Draft Which

Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Joni Eareckson Tada

God Time Suffering Bible Problem Go

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

Diane Kruger

Learn You Want Accent Fascinating

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

Clint Eastwood

Think Thought Moments Connection Up

Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level.

Timothy Morton

Religion Thinking Guilt Level Course

I think I'm the best candidate not just to beat President Obama, but to do what is necessary to get this country going, a conviction conservative who can rally the American public around a common set of values.

Rick Santorum

Best Think American Values Country

He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.

Lynn Redgrave

Life Good Now Say Years Going