top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Brazilian Authors
"I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong."
"A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay."
"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."
"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."
"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."
"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."
"She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized."
"Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you've stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on."
"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
"In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong."
"You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance."
"Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions."
"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."
"The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers."
"In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies."
"A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all."
"The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism."
"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."
"A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor."
"It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation."
"The completion is always more difficult that the beginning."
"It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path."
"It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is."
"We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself."
"She, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child."
"The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes."
"Knowing someone's name meant knowing that the other person was a human being and not "the enemy. Knowing someone's name transformed him into a unique and special individual, with a past and a future, with ancestors and possibly descendants, a person who has known triumphs and failures. People are their names; they're proud of them; they repeat them thousands of times in their lifetime and identify with them. It's the first word they learn after "Daddy and "Mummy."
"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us."
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation."
"Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets.""Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go."
"I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads."
"Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand."
"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
"I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate."
"They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice."
bottom of page