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“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
― Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

“Pergunta o que desconheces e passarás por ignorante durante cinco minutos. Não o perguntes e serás ignorante toda a avida.”
― Provérbio chinês

“Une vie ne vaut rien, mais rien ne vaut une vie.”
― André Malraux, The Conquerors

“Evey: Who are you?
V. : Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that.
V. : Of course you can, I’m not questioning your powers of observation, I’m merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey: Oh, right.
V. : But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
Evey: Are you like a crazy person?
V. : I’m quite sure they will say so.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
― Pythagoras

“A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but half a lie will never be half true”
― Jean Cocteau

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”
― Steve Harvey, Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man

“Não faças da tua vida um rascunho. Poderás não ter tempo de passá-la a limpo.”
― Mario Quintana

“Não chores pelas coisas terem acabado. Sorri por elas terem existido”
― Anonymous

“Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. ”
― George Burns

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Nunca deixará de me surpreender o facto da matemática, um produto da livre imaginação humana, corresponder tão exatamente à realidade”
― Albert Einstein

“A ciência serve apenas para nos dar uma ideia da extensão da nossa ignorância”
― Félicité Robert de Lamennais

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta #3

“We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them. But you cannot kiss an idea... cannot touch it or hold it.
Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man.
A man that made me remember the 5th of November. A man that I will never forget.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Para a nossa cobiça o muito é pouco , para a nossa necessidade o pouco é muito”
― Francisco Quevedo

“Ajuda o teu semelhante a levantar a carga, mas não a levá-la”
― Pitágoras

“A tragédia está nos olhos de quem a observa, e não no coração de quem a sofre”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“Devíamos aprender todos aprender com o clima. Não liga nenhuma às críticas.”
― Anonymous

“Uma assinatura revela sempre o caráter de uma pessoa - e, às vezes, até o seu nome”
― Evan Esar, 20,000 Quips & Quotes

“Há duas coisas que preocupam muita gente: uma, que as coisas nunca voltem ao normal; a outra, que já tenham voltado.”
― Anonymous

“Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva”
― Alexis Carrel

“O pessimista queixa-se do tempo.
O optimista espera que mude.
O realista ajusta as velas.”
― George Ward

“Há três coisas que nunca mais voltam atrás: a palavra proferida, a bala atirada, e a oportunidade perdida.”
― Provérbio chinês

“Quando apontas com um dedo, recorda que os outros três dedos estão a apontar para ti”
― Provérbio inglês

“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:

'Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
― Dalai Lama XIV