A Quote by Anibal Cavaco Silva

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

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Expect Me Palace

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Anibal Cavaco Silva
Portuguese - Statesman
Born: July 15, 1939

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Edward Young

It was Cosmos who actually told Crystal Palace about me. Palace came to have a look, liked what they saw, and they took it from there.

Victor Moses

When Sunderland turned down an offer for me from Crystal Palace I went to see Moyes in his office three or four times. I was angry. I told him: 'Accept Palace's bid and just let me leave - it is the best thing for all concerned.' But he said that he wanted to keep hold of me.

Patrick van Aanholt

The earth's biosphere could be thought of as a sort of palace. The continents are rooms in the palace; islands are smaller rooms. Each room has its own decor and unique inhabitants; many of the rooms have been sealed off for millions of years. The doors in the palace have been flung open, and the walls are coming down.

Richard Preston

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

Paul Ince

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

Aldous Huxley

Every team I'm on, I expect to win. I expect to push my teammates as much as I can, and I expect them to do the same with me.

Ashlyn Harris

The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.

Alexander Chee

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

Geddy Lee

Unlike a lot of people, I'm not afraid of the unknown. It intrigues me.

Misha Green

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

Thomas Aquinas

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

Lance Armstrong

I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

Jayne Mansfield

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.