Lute com determinação, abrace a vida com paixão, perca com classe e vença com ousadia, porque o mundo pertence a quem se atreve e a vida é muito para ser insignificante.

A duração breve da nossa vida proíbe-nos de alimentar uma esperança longa.

A esperança de gozar cede apenas em prazer à esperança realizada.

O mundo pertence aos otimistas: os pessimistas são meros espectadores.

Otimismo é esperar pelo melhor. Confiança é saber lidar com o pior.

Nada há de bom nesta vida salvo a esperança de uma outra vida.

Há pessoas que choram por saber que as rosas têm espinho. Há outras que sorriem por saber que os espinhos têm rosas!

Pratique a esperança. À media que a esperança se torna um hábito, você consegue alcançar um espírito permanentemente feliz.

A verdadeira esperança é uma qualidade, uma determinação heróica da alma. E a mais elevada forma de esperança é o desespero superado.

Acredite que você pode, assim você já está no meio do caminho.

Pessimismo leva à fraqueza, otimismo ao poder.

A esperança é um alimento da nossa alma, ao qual se mistura sempre o veneno do medo.

Todos os dias faça alguma coisa de que você tem medo.

Um dia tudo será excelente, eis a nossa esperança; hoje tudo corre pelo melhor, eis a nossa ilusão.

O presente é a sombra que se move separando o ontem do amanhã. Nela repousa a esperança.

Acredite, existem pessoas que não procuram beleza, mas sim coração.

A esperança é o sonho do homem acordado.

Num certo momento da vida, não é a esperança a última a morrer, mas a morte é a última esperança.

A recordação é a esperança do avesso. Olha-se para o fundo do poço como se olhou para o alto da torre.

Se, a princípio, a ideia não é absurda, então não há esperança para ela.

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

A timeline is a linear representation of cause and effect, changing one event alters all that follow.

One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it.

In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing.

To an Ohio boy, it represented world-weary Gallic shrugs and Gauloises cigarettes, existentialist thinkers in berets and Catherine Deneuve in nothing at all - French was the language of intellectual power and effortless sex appeal.

I was so gullible as a kid.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'

We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

Some of the worlds most effective thoughts happen over a brew of mornings coffee

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But in fact depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved”. Romans 10:13