Dulce Rodrigues Quotes

No matter what we have heard or read about a country, it is our own feeling that counts. ~ Dulce Rodrigues

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

Instinct caused a woman who had once been so attractive to still attempt makeup and hairdos, Marisa guessed, but more often than not, the effort came off with Mama looking like a clown. Seeing it broke Marisa's heart, but she didn't interfere. Her mother didn't know the difference and these days, it was rare for anyone but Marisa to see her. What little family they had seldom came and Mama's friends in Agua Dulce, out of respect, were reluctant to gawk at her decline. ~ Anna Jeffrey

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

At some point in this course, perhaps even tonight, you will read something difficult, something you only partially understand, and your verdict will be this is stupid. Will I argue when you advance that opinion in class the next day? Why would I do such a useless ting? My time with you in short, only thirty-four weeks of classes, and I will not waste it arguing about the merits of this short story or that poem. Why would I, when all such opinions are subjective, and no final resolution can ever be reached?'

Some of the kids - Gloria was one of them - now looked lost, but Pete understood exactly what Mr. Ricker, aka Ricky the Hippie, was talking about...

'Time is the answer," Mr Ricker said on the first day of Pete's sophomore year. He strode back and forth, antique bellbottoms swishing, occasionally waving his arms. "Yes! Time mercilessly culls away the is-stupid from the not-stupid."
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"It will occur for you, young ladies and gentlemen, although I will be in your rear-view mirror by the time it happens. Shall I tell you how it happens? You will read something - perhaps 'Dulce et Decorum Est,' by Wilfred Owen. Shall we use that as an example? Why not?'

Then, in a deeper voice that sent chills up Pete's back and tightened his throat, Mr. Ricker cried, " 'Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge...' And son on. Cetra-cetra. Some of you will say, This is stupid."

~ Stephen King

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it. ~ Desiderius Erasmus

I'd rather have a life of chaos beside you than a life of quietude and stability without you... ~ Catia M Rodrigues

Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later ... some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie. ~ Ezra Pound

It's a funny thing when someone says something you've been waiting to hear for a good portion of your life. It's like suddenly it doesn't feel like it took so look for them to say it, because in some way you always knew that they meant to and eventually one day they would get around to it. ~ Carmen Rodrigues

Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

In life, it take strides forward, but you always take a few steps back. But in the end, if you take more steps forward than backward, you're making progress. ~ Carmen Rodrigues

If you love me, love me whole
not by zones of light or shadow…
if you love me, love me black
and white, and gray and green and blond,
and mixed…
love me day,
love me night…
and in the morning with the open window!

If you love me, don't break me in pieces:
love me whole… Or do not love me at all. ~ Dulce María Loynaz

Mattie loves to read. Was born to read. I love to listen to Mattie read. The way her voice rises two octaves above everyone else's. The way the words collide-an endless train of sounds that doesn't require breath. ~ Carmen Rodrigues

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

And when our eyes locked, I felt that pain I got whenever she was around. That pain of knowing that sometimes the things I want aren't the things I need, but not knowing, exactly, how to let those things go. ~ Carmen Rodrigues

I only believe in those who can still blush. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

Only the prophets see the obvious. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

Friendships are the most important thing you can have in your life. Sometimes they have their ups and downs. Sometimes it's your fault and sometimes it's not. But the key to handling those ups and downs is to remember that good friends will always find their way back to each other. ~ Carmen Rodrigues

You said, "Ellie, this is the truth, everybody leaves. Everybody." I was just seven, and when I reached for you, you were death and absence and missing take you. You were where bad husbands disappear to. And you were whispering. "Just ask them. ~ Carmen Rodrigues

Dulce bellum inexpertis

"War is very sweet to those who have never tried it. ~ Erasmus

You can't be the only superhero around here. I can do that too. – Hope Danielles ~ Dulce Amor Soriano

Dulce Olivia had sharp wits and a strong character, and it was not easy to detect her madness ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love is impossible without bite marks. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous! ~ Nelson Rodrigues

The keyhole is my lens as a writer. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

[...] The idea of honor in battle has been passed down for generations. It went from Greece to Rome, to the medieval world and the Crusades. It was beloved of Sir Philip Sidney, Essex and Southampton [...]. In many ways, the British Empire was founded on it [...] The idea came to a halt in the First World War [...] The poets, led by Wilfred Owen, told the truth about it "[...] The old lie : 'Dulce el decorum est pro patria mori'.
[...]Henry IV Part I is a play with much "honor". Honor is its central theme. So let's examine Henry IV Part I for a moment, to understand the ingredients of "honor". [...] You will notice there are not many women in these plays [about honor]-and when they appear, they are usually whores or faifthful wives. Honor is not a woman's story[...] 'What is honour? A word', (...) a mere scutcheon" [says] Falstaff's iconoclasm and truthful vision about honor.
{...]There are several things we can see in all this. The first is that war is a man´s game, it is intolerable, and the only way you can get people to do it is to make the alternative seem a hundred times worse [...] Therefore, valor must be glorified, if not deified. [...] ~ Tina Packer

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

Saturday is an illusion. ~ Nelson Rodrigues