“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Love, too, was just a question of time”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights...”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“It was all a matter of control. And Choice.
Nothing more, nothing less”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life. ”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us. ”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
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“Carmack wrote some code that duped the computer into thinking that, for example, the seventh tile from the left was in fact the first tile on the screen. This way the computer would begin drawing right where Carmack wanted it to. Instead of spitting out dozens of little blue pixels on the way over to the cloud, the computer could start with the cloud itself. To make sure the player felt the effect of smooth movement, Carmack added one other touch, instructing the computer to draw an extra strip of blue tile outside the right edge of the screen and store it in its memory for when the player moved in that direction. Because the tiles were in memory, they could be quickly thrown up on the screen without having to be redrawn. Carmack called the process “adaptive tile refresh.” In lay terms, as Tom immediately understood, this meant one thing: They could do Super Mario Brothers 3 on a PC! Nobody, no one, nowhere had made the PC do this. And now they could do it, right here, right now, take their all-time favorite video game and hack it together so it could work on the computer. It was almost a revolutionary act of subversion, he thought, especially considering Nintendo’s stronghold on its own platform. There was no way to, say, copy a Nintendo game onto a PC as one would tape an album. But now they could replicate it tile for tile, blip for blip. It was the ultimate hack. “Let’s do it!” Tom said. “Let’s make the first level of Super Mario tonight!” He”
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“There are no boring places, only boring people,”
― John Corey Whaley, quote from Highly Illogical Behavior
“Full of innocence, full of hope. It is almost a shame to destroy that. The sweetness never stays long. It is destroyed quickly, replaced with tears and fear. It is sad that he now connects that fear with the experience, has grown to enjoy it on a level almost equal to the innocence.”
― A.R. Torre, quote from The Girl in 6E
“I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years. It is peddled by mythmakers- historians, war correspondents, filmmakers, novelists, and the state- all of whom endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism, power, chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and fantastic universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty.”
― Chris Hedges, quote from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
“As Einstein once wrote (more ringingly in German than in this English translation by one of us [DG]) to honor Isaac Newton: Look unto the stars to teach us How the master’s thoughts can reach us Each one follows Newton’s math Silently along its path.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, quote from Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
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