Botequim Carioca Quotes & Sayings

He had wandered with innocence and naivete into this web, and now every move would wrap him tighter. Each lie would stick to the others, until one day he would find himself in a tight little cocoon, trapped and suffocating from the thousands of little fibs that living and working in that cursed swamp of a city seemed to require every man to ooze. — Hugh Howey

Every love story is a requiem. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. — Walter Isaacson

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world — Dean Cavanagh

Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing. — Sheldon Vanauken

The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence-and eventually falling through that hole ourselves. — Van Jones

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem. — Sting

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons. — Leslie Weatherhead

Deliver me from my disciples! — Oscar Wilde

We're going to have to control the spending of government. — Kevin McCarthy

I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about. — Geoff Mulgan

Sex is what you make it, and we have always made do. To assume sex must take place within touching distance seems, to me, limited thinking. — Catherine Ryan Hyde