Socrates (footballer) Quotes

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Athlete | February 19, 1954 - December 4, 2011
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I was born in a poor country. I was poor, but I lived all my life with what I had. I didn’t spend more than I had. Cape Verde is not the only place where there are poor people
Cesária Évora
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang
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One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior! (p. 46)
Sei Shōnagon
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
George Carlin
I hope you will find another one who is both beautiful and good to take my place and serve our parents and bring up my children, and then I shall die content.
Shen Fu
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In the midst of all this, there was Bernie Madoff. An embezzler named "made off." Hmm. Was the name not a clue? Did he have to be with the accounting firm of Dewey, Fuckyou, and Howe?
Robin Williams
Head’s contention is that socially ascribed identities arefalse, misleading and degrading to the true inner person
Bessie Head
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through our business activities, thereby enhancing the quality of life throughout the world.
Konosuke Matsushita
To establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society, and work to their heart's content.
Masaru Ibuka
Heterosexism: The belief in the inherent superiority of one pattern of loving and thereby its right to dominance.
Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
Socrates (footballer)
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin
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Looking at the new generation of African artists, many of them get trapped early on in styles that aren’t theirs, and that limits them. At this rate, I worry about the future of African music, and that in the future, there won’t be many singers who represent the African woman.
Busi Mhlongo
?You like irony now too?”
“Irony tastes good. Like sausage.”
Socrates (footballer)
An art thief is a man who takes pictures.
George Carlin