"As so often happens, the thing left undone……" — Jose Saramago
"As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished."
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142 Quotes by Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago has 142 quotes on this site.
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God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We…
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Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land…
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This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say…
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doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time
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A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In…
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Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the…
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In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not…
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Each day is a little bit of history
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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos…
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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand…
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We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want…
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing…
— Warren Beatty
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Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people.…
— Bob Beauprez
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
— Warren G. Bennis
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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will…
— Sitting Bull
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Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
— Robert Byrd
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there…
— Dale Carnegie
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I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get…
— Jim Carrey
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The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since…
— Hillary Clinton
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I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
— Sergio Aragones
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According…
— Alice Miller
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