Vinicius De Moraes Quotes

#1. The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

Tina Brown

#2. When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

Ben Harper

#3. Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

Sissela Bok

#4. People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#5. Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

Henry Mintzberg

#7. Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.

Elliot Kay

#8. I love bowl games. I really do. I like it more than the kids do. I grew up a poor kid in western Pennsylvania, and I went to Nebraska because I saw them play in the Orange Bowl and I wanted to play in a bowl game. I cherish the memories.

Barry Alvarez

#9. Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

Bill Gates

#10. On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

J.K. Rowling

#11. I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

John McAfee

#12. Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart.

J.K. Rowling

#13. Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

Joseph Warren

#14. For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.

Dave Heineman

#15. If someone burns out your eye
I will take your socket
and use it for an ashtray.

Anne Sexton

#16. Love is eternal while it lasts.

Vinicius De Moraes

#17.
Who knows what death, anxiety of the living,
Who knows what loneliness, end of the loving
I could say to myself of the love (I had):
Let it not be immortal, since it is flame
But let it be infinite while it lasts.

Vinicius De Moraes