Rubem Alves Quotes

#1. I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty ... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Mev Puleo

#2. I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)

Mev Puleo

#3. I believe that theology is facing the abyss.
I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Mev Puleo

#4. You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

Andrew Taylor Still

#5. You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.

Zach Braff

#6. And another ingredient for your pot of adolescent jokes soup." The

Love Belvin

#7. There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

Rubem Alves

#8. Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

Lynn Coady

#9. Choose your battles. If rapid development is truly top priority, don't shackle your developers by insisting on too many priorities at once.

Steve McConnell

#10. Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.

Rubem Alves

#11. There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!

Olivia Newton-John

#12. I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.

John Oliver

#13. Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.

Rubem Alves

#14. I am Duchess of Malfi still.

John Webster

#15. Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

Morihei Ueshiba

#16. I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

Rudyard Kipling

#17. Thomson: "Just our luck! The one time we manage to catch the culprits they turn out to be innocent! It's really too bad of them!"
Thompson: "You'd think they'd done it on purpose!

Herge

#18. People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

Ted Yoho

#19. Inviolable, untrod; goddesses,
Dread brood of Earth and Darkness, here abide.

Sophocles

#20. If you are bad at heart, no polish can make you shine!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

W. Edwards Deming