210 Quotes by Brazilian authors

Brazilian words carry the salt of the Atlantic and the dust of the sertão. They move with samba’s sway and football’s feint, where joy and struggle share the same beat. Expect saudade’s lingering ache, the jeitinho that bends rules into possibility, and a humor sharpened by inequality yet softened by generosity. Voices from street corners to Clarice Lispector’s quiet rooms explore faith braided with doubt, desire with duty, nature’s lush excess beside urban urgency, phrases that console, provoke, and find light in unexpected cracks.

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"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

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"And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

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"Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

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"Because in a split second, it's gone"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

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"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

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"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

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"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

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"I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"

Paulo Freire, Educator

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in"

Peter Medawar, Scientist

"There are no small accidents on this circuit"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people"

Paulo Freire, Educator

"A lot of airlines have come and gone"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!"

Adriana Lima, Model

"I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile"

Adriana Lima, Model

"The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes"

Emerson Fittipaldi, Celebrity

"Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

Small: Ayrton Senna

"Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

Small: Ayrton Senna

"It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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"I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

Small: Ayrton Senna

"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

Small: Ayrton Senna

"I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

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