A Quote by Fernando Pessoa

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

Fernando Pessoa

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First Root Strikes Then Unfamiliar

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Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese - Author
June 13, 1888 - November 30, 1935

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.

T. B. Joshua

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

William Shakespeare

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Joe Abercrombie

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

William Harvey

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

Edward Young

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

William Hazlitt

Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.

John Owen

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.

Casey Neistat

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

bell hooks

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

Sophie Swetchine

All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.

Fatos Nano

If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the tap root of everything wrong with the U.S.-China trade relationship.