Eduarda Vieira Quotes

#1. How earthy old people become
moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

Monica Bellucci

#3. Her body had been in a war and, as in love, it had used every part of itself.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. Love must be chosen. It must be free, and it must be from the heart, without external motivations. But, quite frankly, it's very difficult for an all-powerful God to behave in such a way that love can occur with these qualities.

Gregory A. Boyd

#5. Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Sean O'Casey

#6. You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.

Joseph Heller

#7. I don't know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don't know if the whole thing's an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.

Glen Duncan

#8. The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Boris Vian

#9. Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

Neil Gaiman

#10. It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

Joan Didion

#11. I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

Patti LaBelle

#12. You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

Pete Cashmore

#13. Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#14. You know ... it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

Socrates