Jose Santos > Jose's Quotes

“It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do. . .If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.”
― Mark Mills, The Savage Garden

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Há um tempo em que é preciso abandonar as roupas usadas, que já tem a forma do nosso corpo, e esquecer os nossos caminhos, que nos levam sempre aos mesmos lugares. É o tempo da travessia: e, se não ousarmos fazê-la, teremos ficado, para sempre, à margem de nós mesmos.”
― Fernando Teixeira de Andrade

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever.”
― Eric Hansen, Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She's got so many azalea bushes, her yard's going to look like Gone With the Wind come spring. I don't like azaleas and I sure didn't like that movie, the way they made slavery look like a big happy tea party. If I'd played Mammy, I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Maker her own damn man-catching dress.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I looked after that Dudley family for too long, over six years. His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that boy until I couldn't stand it no more.... I wish to God I'd told John Green Dudley he ain't going to hell. That he ain't no sideshow freak cause he like boys. I wish to God I'd filled his ears with good things like I'm trying to do with Mae Mobley. Instead, I just sat in the kitchen, waiting to put the salve on them hose-pipe welts.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“There is nothing like a grocery list to remind us how human we are.”
― Susan Wittig Albert, Nightshade

“One person's weed is another person's wildflower.”
― Susan Wittig Albert, An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
― Carter Crocker

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

“The best way to get even is to forget.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

“Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.”
― Debbie Macomber, Texas Two-Step

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Há algumas coisas que alguém lhe devia de dizer e ninguém o faz porque o vêem com temor. Mas afinal de contas, quem são os verdadeiros amigos? Os que acenam que sim a tudo o que queremos ou aqueles que nos dizem coisas que precisamos de ouvir e que mais ninguém nos diz, seja por medo, indiferença, ou dó?”
― João Lin Yun, Um Crime na Teia Universitária

“Gostaria também que (este livro) fosse uma forma de podermos ter um país mais florido, com mais adeptos da orquidofilia e jardinagem em Portugal, porque esta «doença» incurável faz muito bem ao corpo, à mente e à alma.”
― Jose M.M. Santos, A Paixão pelas Orquídeas - Manual do Orquidófilo

“Como são produzidas em quantidades astronómicas, os preços baixaram muito e as orquídeas estão hoje acessíveis a todos. No entanto, nunca serão flores comuns ou banais. Terão sempre a sua beleza especial, o seu estatuto de raridade, a sua aura de magia ou até de misticismo.”
― Jose M.M. Santos, A Paixão pelas Orquídeas - Manual do Orquidófilo

“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.”
― Alice Munro