A Quotes
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“a nossa forma de pensar tem uma fortíssima tendência para o nós vs. eles”
Source: Preconceito e Discriminação em Portugal
“A nossa meta, muitas vezes, não está onde pensamos. Pode estar à beira da estrada, pode estar a meio do caminho, no meio de uma praça, e seria um desperdício se passássemos por ela a correr, se passássemos ao seu lado sem a vermos. E assim continuaríamos a correr para lado nenhum, para uma ilusão. Havia uma grande virtude na lebre: ela sabia viver.”
Source: Arquivos De Dresner
“A nossa vida é feita de esperas. E, afinal, basta uma palavra, uma só palavra para sermos deuses, isentos de esperas.”
Source: O Outro Pé da Sereia
“A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.”
Source: Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home
“A not-so-easy pill to swallow, is the fact that much of the time, you are fighting monsters that you yourself have fashioned. Yes, there are toxic relationships, toxic individuals, but there also exists the monsters that you have fashioned with your own mind. You think you are being chased, captured, wounded, by these monsters when in fact you alone are composed of the entire capability to dismantle them piece-by-piece, because in reality they exist in your mind and you have fashioned them as the creator of your inner world, as the author of your own epic tale. In this sense, you may reassemble your world and you may remake the plot of your own story. The key is realising how much of the darkness is actually your own doing, digging for their roots, and figuring out how to begin dismantling.”
“A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 1964 wakes up and lets out a yell or two. Each time this happens I find myself thinking, "Is it possible that human beings can continue with this lunacy very much longer?" You know the answer, of course.”
Source: As I Please: 1943-1945
“A not uncommon practice was to associate nationality with a particular disease, often sexually transmitted. For example, the English called syphilis "The French Disease"; the French called it "The Italian Disease"; the Italians called it "The Turkish Disease"; the Russians called it "The Polish Disease"; and both the Japanese and the Indians termed it "The Portuguese Disease." Only the Spanish accepted any blame, referring to it as "The Spanish Disease.”
Source: Opus Ultimum: The Story of the Mozart Requiem
“A nota de dólar é venerada universalmente, para lá de fronteiras políticas e religiosas. Embora não tenha valor intrínseco em si – não se pode comer ou beber uma nota de dólar –, a confiança na divisa e na competência da Reserva Federal é tão sólida que até os fundamentalistas islâmicos, os barões da droga mexicanos e os tiranos norte-coreanos comungam dela.”
Source: 21 lições para o século 21
“A notable absentee at her father’s bedside had been Isabella; she could no longer attempt to guide the rule of both Mantua and Ferrara as she had been wont over the past years.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“A notable difference between normal narcissistic personality disorder and malignant narcissism is the feature of sadism, or the gratuitous enjoyment of the pain of others. A narcissist will deliberately damage other people in pursuit of their own selfish desires, but may regret and will in some circumstances show remorse for doing so, while a malignant narcissist will harm others and enjoy doing so, showing little empathy or regret for the damage they have caused.”
Source: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
“A notable few seconds of silence ensued before she heard a man speak. "What a delightful coincidence."
Startled by the familiar voice, she turned around to find herself gazing upon Martin, of all people, standing in his own open doorway, his hand still upon the knob. He wore formal evening attire- a black suit with a white waistcoat and bow tie made of the finest silk money could buy. His hair was thick and shiny black like wicked midnight, falling in attractive waves to his broad shoulders. His blue eyes were heavy-lidded and openly sensual.”
Source: Surrender to a Scoundrel
“A notable quote from this chapter could be:
"By embracing the term 'bulan,' we are reclaiming our true identity as the descendants of the 'mother of mankind,' acknowledging the rich history and cultural heritage of the African continent, and letting go of the colonial labels and language imposed upon us.”
“A notary seal only job is to authenticate the signer and the seal serves as a witness and not as a lawyer to authenticate the document”
“A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.”
“A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.”
Source: Monologue of a Dog
“A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.”
“A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.”
“A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment”
“A nothing
we were, are, shall
remain, flowering:
the nothing--, the
no one's rose.”
Source: Selected poems
“A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.”
Source: The Crystal Lithium-Pa
“A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.”
“A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives.”
Source: Wicked / Son of a Witch
“A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.”
Source: On Love: A Novel
“A notícia do martírio de Isaac de Castro Tartas abalara a comunidade portuguesa em Amsterdã. Isaac partira anos antes para o Recife, sob soberania neerlandesa, mas depois cometera o erro de ir para a Bahia, onde estavam os portugueses, e acabara nas mãos da Inquisição e extraditado para Lisboa. O seu triste fim na fogueira tinha sido igual ao de tantos outros.”
Source: O Segredo de Espinosa
“A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.”
Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters
“A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with - who may not often read anything but the Sears catalog - to read my books.”
“A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.”
“A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.”
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.”
“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man can become, everything he's capable of. Novelists draw up the map of existence by discovering this or that human possibilit. But again, to exist mean: 'being-in-the-world.' Thus both the character and his world must be understood as possibilities.”
Source: The Art of the Novel
“A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It’s messy, like a beloved, balky child.”
“A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.”
Source: A Step Back
“A novel is a book with a lot of pages.”
“A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts.”
Source: Occasions and protests
“A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.”
“A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.”
“A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.”
“A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.”
“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”
“A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.”
Source: The Red and the Black
“A novel is a mirror walking down a road”
Source: The English Patient
“A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.”
“A novel is a performance you have to plan.”
“A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.”
“A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.”
Source: Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992
“A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on.”
“A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.”
“A novel is a tricky thing to map.”
Source: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel
“A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.”
“A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment...”