Acabados Contemporaneos Quotes

#1. Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

Zhu Rongji

#2. Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.

Thomas Mann

#3. The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena.
Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.

Ian Barbour

#4. In the 1980s ... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.

James G. Watt

#5. A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia.

Kenneth Williams

#6. That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

Gertrude Stein