Guilherme Kroll > Guilherme's Quotes

“Conheço pessoas, conheço cidades, fazendas, montanhas, rios e rochas; sei como sol poente de outono se esparrama pela face de um certo tipo de terra arada; mas qual o sentido de impor uma fronteira a isso tudo, dar-lhe um nome e deixar de amar o lugar onde o nome não se aplica? O que é o amor pelo seu país? É o ódio pelo seu não-país? Então não é uma coisa boa. É apenas amor-próprio? Isso é bom, mas não se deve fazer dele uma virtude ou uma profissão de fé. Na mesma medida que amo a vida, amo as montanhas, mas esse amor não tem uma fronteira traçada pelo ódio."

Ursula K. Le Guin, no ótimo "A Mão Esquerda da Escuridão".”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.

"What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"

"All of them at once," said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain.

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"Good morning!" he said at last. "We don't want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water." By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

“Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.”
― Bill Shankly

“...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“There's no profit in peace.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Another Brownell adage that Perkins subscribed to was that the worst reason for publishing anything was that it resembled something else, that however unconscious, "an imitation is always inferior.”
― A. Scott Berg, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello