Lacerda Quotes & Sayings

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior. — David Brooks

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?) — Noel Coward

I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him. — Blake Shelton

Life is where reality ends and imagination begins. Until you step beyond that boundary, you have not lived. — Thomas Lopinski

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself ... — Philip Jose Farmer

Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves. — Darryl Hickman

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. — Fernando Pessoa

It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity. — Rosie O'Donnell

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions. — Albert Einstein

It seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but exceptional, a man not only capable of being a real poet, but a husband and father too. — Andre Dubus III

This was not a simple case of taking an otherwise normal, well-balanced, rational human being, putting him in a bad situation, and suddenly he turns bad," he said. "I faked it." He explained. The first night was boring. Everyone was just sitting around. "I thought, Someone is spending a lot of money to put this thing on and they're not getting any results. So I thought I'd get some action going." He had just seen the Paul Newman prison movie Cool Hand Luke, in which a sadistic southern prison warden played by Strother Martin persecutes the inmates. So Dave decided to channel him. — Jon Ronson

The real subject of On Being Blue is language itself, which he sees as glorious to the exact degree that it is also inadequate, unable to sustain an immediate relation between a word on the one hand and its arbitrary and yet indissoluble referent on the other. All words are figurative; no blue is ever just blue. — William H Gass