#tug

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#english football #few #few things #football #how

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ↗

— George S. Patton

#against #goals #high #high goals #need

I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#i #like #places #portugal #two

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#be the first #best #especially #first #happy

I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor. ↗

— Ian Rush

#chance #come #family #five #got

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#fluent #french #i #i am #italian

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent. ↗

— Walter Salles

#come #continent #i #part #portuguese

For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#being #children #decided #enough #feeling

Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed beside him on his travels, leather-brown and skeletal, crowned with lace and gold circlet, hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls, her bone-fingers fantastically ringed. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#ines-de-castro #love #pedro-of-portugal #possession #love

O futuro de Portugal - que não calculo, mas sei - está escrito já, para quem saiba lê-lo, nas trovas de Bandarra, e também nas quadras de Nostradamus. Esse futuro é sermos tudo. Quem, que seja português, pode viver a estreiteza de uma só personalidade, de uma só nação, de uma só fé? ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#portugal #inspirational