Rodrigo Alves > Rodrigo's Quotes

“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”
― Adam Smith

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”
― Adam Smith

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“I have made a discovery,' said Giskard, his voice carrying no shade of emotion. 'I have made it because, for the first time in my existence, I faced thousands of human beings. Had I done this two centuries ago, I would have made the discovery then. Had I never faced so many at once, then I would never have made the discovery at all.

'Consider, then, how many vital points I might easily grasp, but never have and never will, simply because the proper conditions for it will never come my way. I remain ignorant except where circumstance helps me, and I cannot count on circumstance.”
― Isaac Asimov, Robots And Empire

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Em nome da religião têm-se praticado muitos crimes; em nome da arte têm-se justificado muitas sem-vergonhices; mas, atualmente, é a ciência que justifica crimes e também assaltos aos minguados orçamentos do país.”
― Lima Barreto, Lima Barreto: Cronista do Rio

“A nossa burguesia republicana é a mais inepta de todas as burguesias. Não tem gosto, não tem arte, não possui o mais elementar sentimento da natureza. Há nela pressa em tudo: no galgar posições, no construir, no amor, no ganhar dinheiro, etc. Vai, nessa carreira, atropelando, vai matando, vai empurrando tudo e todos; e, como não tenha educação, cultura e instrução, quando se apossa do dinheiro, ganho bem ou mal, não sabe refletir como aplicá-lo, num gesto próprio e seu; então, intimida o idiota que procura em comprar o que for caro, porque será decerto o mais belo.”
― Lima Barreto, Lima Barreto: Cronista do Rio

“We mortals who dwell in pain and sorrow might with reason envy the birds of heaven which know not either!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk