English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Jose Saramago Quotes

Jose Saramago quote: "Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts."

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Jose Saramago

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Benjamin Franklin quote: "What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered:..."
What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read. Benjamin Franklin
If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. Walter Anderson
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. M. H. Abrams
If you refuse me, I shall be compelled to believe that you are cruelly enjoying my misery, and that you have learned in the most accursed school that the best way of preventing a young man from curing himself of an amorous passion is to excite it constantly; but you must agree with me that, to put such tyranny in practice, it is necessary to hate the person it is practised upon, and, if that be so, I ought to call upon my reason to give me the strength necessary to hate you likewise. Giacomo Casanova
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part. Jeremy Collier
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed. Gaston Bachelard
Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip... Arthur Koestler
Carrie Underwood quote: "This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better."
This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better. Carrie Underwood
There are a lot of dedicated people out there that don't get the recognition that we get, but they're as important as the people that are sitting in the vehicle. Mark Kelly
Sydney Madwed quote: "Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? Sydney Madwed
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater. Cathy Rigby
Josh Billings quote: "Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and..."
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. Josh Billings
Lou Reed quote: "I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want..."
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. Lou Reed
Clint Eastwood quote: "They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and..."
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. Clint Eastwood
I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series. Dennis Farina