Top 1005 Quotes & Sayings by Brazilian Authors - Page 2

I'm proud of what I've done. I look at it and I try to stay humble and do what I've got to do, but I think people forget, I'm the first guy to beat the win streak at Nova Uniao with Johnny Eduardo. He had an 11-fight win streak and I beat him, and people say, 'That's nothing.'

I love to eat and I love sweets... like chocolate. But I do work out.

My game is characterised by consistency.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985, Bolsonaro, his whole life, has been uplifting not only the dictatorship itself but also the methods that the dictatorship used to stay in power, including torture.

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The Emirates. The night before, I remember I put my music on my iPod. I was lying in bed, and I listened to the Champions League music. That was my Champions League debut, my first time. It was beautiful.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

Surprise is key in all art.

A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.

I don't care about the future. I feel the future always reserves enough good things for you if you stay open and you smile.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

If you take the right vitamins and drink enough water, your body flushes everything out for you.

God created me to delight people with my goals.

I am very fortunate, very grateful for everything that has happened to me, everything I've done, all the opportunities, so I'm very happy.

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.

Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.

When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.

Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.

Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.

I am happy with what I have done until now, but there are things I would like to improve. I would like to do more, there is always margin to grow and reduce mistakes, fix things to get things perfect.

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

Although it was hard to be traded, I have no hard feelings. I'm grateful to Dan Gilbert and the Cavs organization for 12 amazing years. I know I'm very fortunate. I'm leaving one great team and joining another. I can't wait to put on my new Warrior jersey.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.

The most important thing is winning, not breaking the world record.

I love to run. I feel free and complete. The feeling of moving fast is just magical; it's wonderful.

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

What I learned from my father is to think big.

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

I always want to be racing.

What I have to show, I show on the track.

I don't usually have facials.

It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.

It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.

I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me happy, so... The more I can, the better.

After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

Having balanced nutrition is also very important to keep my body in shape and healthy.

One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.