"I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country."

-- Eike Batista

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't like to think on obstacles. I guess that if you focus your mind on obstacles, they will grow bigger.”
“This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.”
“Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.”
“Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.”
“It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.”
“Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.”

Source : Sarah Ruhl (2014). “100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater”, p.56, Macmillan
“I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this”
“My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.”

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