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Quotes by Brazilian Authors
"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
"Everyday, God gives us the sun- and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist - that today is the sames as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment."
"I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car."
"I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong."
"Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground."
"The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers."
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation."
"Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing."
"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
"Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background."
"In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher."
"We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption."
"After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful."
"We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action."
"The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism."
"I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic."
"Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost."
"Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity."
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation."
"Ester asked why people are sad."That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."
"I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile."
"I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow."
"The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know."
"Because it's worth dreaming and expecting the best from you and others, because once you fulfill your dreams you can make other people happy as well."
"However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate."
"Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem."
"The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy."
"Inequality and poverty, health and wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true in all lands. We cannot divide the world between poor and rich countries. It's like saying the ones are good, the others are junkies. That can only increase more prejudice, miseries and sorrow. Turning the wheel today it will lead to a better tomorrow."
"That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say."
"It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great."
"What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers."
"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
"You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not."
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