Carlos Drummond De Andrade Quotes

#1. Jan'nah and Jahannum will both contain sinners, but Jan'nah will have sinners who repented

Boonaa Mohammed

#2. If the afternoon had been blue,
there might have been less desire.

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

#3. Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

#4. Always in my love, sudden night.
Always in myself, my enemy.
And always in my always, the same absence.

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

#5. In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

Octavia E. Butler

#6. I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

#8. O, Senator, drop your trousers! Loosen your cravat! Eschew your spats and step into that shallow, teeming world of mayflies and dragonflies and frogs' eyes staring eye-to-eye with your own, and the silty bottom. Cease your filibuster against the world God gave you.

Paul Harding

#9. We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our players.

Mario Lemieux

#10. Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

Willie Nelson

#11. I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

Steven Seagal

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

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

#13. Shush!" said Ambrogio to the dog, "I advise you to hide, in case it is the horned one trying to get in. I know him a great deal better than you.

Anne Fortier

#14. I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

Star Jones

#15. Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

#16. Throw your empty pop-corn tub in the trash and the entire cinema will be clean for the next patrons.

Malti Bhojwani

#17. Queers doing cowboy dancing. Who would've thunk it? Kids who grew up in Galveston and Tucson and Modesto, performing the folk dances of their homeland finally, finally with the partner of their choice.

Armistead Maupin