Top 57 Adolfo Quotes
#3. Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#4. The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#5. We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#6. ... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#7. The influence of the future on the past, said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#9. If you have the right horses and the right team, that's the way to succeed. But you have to work, and you have to improve. Every year, you must get better.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#11. I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#13. I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#14. The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#16. The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#17. To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#18. You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#20. I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#21. His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#23. I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#24. Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
#25. Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward ... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#28. What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine.
What is poetry! And you are asking me?
Poetry ... is you.
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
#30. I believe in enjoying the game. If you make it too much work, that's not good.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#31. Everybody is talking about the Triple Crown, but I want to win the Open. That is my aim.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#32. Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#35. In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#36. Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#37. As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
#39. I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only thing that has changed for me.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#40. I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#41. I have to look after myself. I go to the gym every day; I have physio every day, I have a couple of guys that work with my body a lot.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#43. For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#44. I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#45. In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#46. Pressure brings out the best in me. It's the only way to keep improving: putting a bit of pressure on yourself.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#47. The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.
Adolfo Suarez
#48. I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#49. And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures ... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#50. Here in Argentina, it is easy to practice and play because we have the horses, the land, the players - everything.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#51. We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#52. Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#53. I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#54. The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#55. The best decisions are taken quickly and well. You can prepare yourself, have all aspects of the game thought through, but the one who shines on the pitch is the one with intuition.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#56. I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.
Adolfo Cambiaso
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