"I have the grace of providence to be poor."

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Source : "Salazar and his time" by César de Oliveira, The Official Publisher, (p. 98), 1991.

Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

#Grace Quotes #Poor Quotes #Providence Quotes

“I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have.”
“You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.”
“I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook.”

Source : "What Was Lucy Hale Like When She Was 17?". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 22, 2013.
“If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.”
“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place. But standing there alone on the landing, I thought of Grandma Halley and how she'd held me close against her lap as we watched the sky together. I'd always thought I couldn't remember, but suddenly in that moment, I closed my eyes and saw the comet, finally, brilliant and impossible, stretching above me across the sky.”
“I've seen teams spend Â£150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.”
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
“Abide with me: fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.”

Source : "Abide with Me" l. 1 (1847)

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