Carlos Drummond Quotes

#1. Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Keller

#2. The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.

Daniel J. Rice

#3. A man of honor never surrenders his ukulele.

Rick Riordan

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

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

#5. Misunderstanding and distrust - the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

Carmen DeSousa

#6. 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

#7. The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

J. Oswald Sanders

#8. A love that is twisted is a terrible thing. One thing worse than that is a life without any love at all.

Kendra Sunderson

#9. Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!

Bob Proctor

#10. The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in war!

Self

#11. No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Bill Murray

#12. All of this was well meaning bullshit. But bullshit is still bullshit and will never be mistaken for McDonald's secret sauce.

Stephen King

#13. With every beat of my heart, I believe she thought keeping her secret was in everyone's best interest. She thought the secret would be buried with her, never to be revealed. She thought wrong.

Misa Rush

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

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

#15. Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.

Craig Thompson

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

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

#17. There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

Janine Benyus

#18. You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

Billy Corgan

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

Carlos Drummond De Andrade

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

Carlos Drummond De Andrade