Top 1005 Quotes & Sayings by Brazilian Authors - Page 3

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.

I'm so not interested in gossip. It just gives me the creeps. I love the work; I love what I do. If somebody sends me an interview that has any connotation of something that's not interesting or genuine, I'm not interested. I really detach myself from it.

In the Premier League, you never know who is going to win or who will be champions. It is always a surprise.

I don't have to rush the fight. I have five rounds to win.

If I had to live my life over again, I would live it exactly the same way. I would do everything in the same way. I don't regret anything.

I played for Atletico and Internacional and then moved to Ukraine with Shakhtar Donetsk. My family supported me a lot and I'm very thankful for them.

I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

The first thing I do in the morning is prepare fresh juice. I have 15 different recipes, which I drink for 15 days consecutively. Then I repeat the recipes from the beginning for the next 15 days of the month. My juices include fruit, vegetables, leafy greens, and even grains.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

I'm too young to have kids, but I really want to be a mom. I don't know if it's a Latin thing, but I love kids.

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

I take all the opportunities that come my way and I am thankful that I have them.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

I try to live football every day.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

I want to go to Santos to win. I'm not going there to finish and to 'steal' money. I'm going to play well, so people say: 'Remember Andreas at Santos?'

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Statistics are there to be broken.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

I don't throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash.

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities.

We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.

You need to be very critical of yourself because MMA is a singular sport. You have to make the changes yourself or nothing will change. You have to be the one making the changes.

I always get lucky against Chile.

At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

I'm one of those people who has a toothbrush and toothpaste with me at all times. After lunch, I'll brush my teeth in a restaurant bathroom!

When I went to Japan, I was with Kashima Antlers. Very good results were produced with that team as I aimed to develop Japanese football.

I have some role models. In Brazil, they are mostly writers. A writer named Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto is my favorite. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is also a very important figure for me.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.

My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

All of these fights I've won, the pressure has been on me to go out there and get the win. I have to beat this guy and that guy, or I'm fighting in Brazil.

I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

Zidane is a very great player, a very calm player.

I do have a Bentley. I do go out.

I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.

I've lost before, you need great people around you, your family, people giving you positive energy.

Valentina is the best in the UFC. I've always wanted to fight her because I always want to fight the best.

I was ready to give up football, but I lifted my head, and I went to Belo Horizonte with just the money for an outward ticket for the last trial I had, with America MG. If I didn't make it, I had no money to get home to Espiritu Santo, 600 kilometres away. I gave my all that morning, and I passed.

Coming over from Spain at the young age of 21 was not easy, but as soon as I put on a Cavs jersey and stepped on the court, I felt at home.

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

I was born in Belgium but I never intended to play for Belgium. I never thought about that.

I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

We have to shut up and work on the pitch.

I no fight for the money because I work hard for UFC for long time. I have money for my family. But I fight because I love it.