Alejo Quotes

#1. Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Lauren Willig

#2. True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#3. I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

Alejo Carpentier

#4. How hard it is to become a man again when one has ceased to be a man. -The Lost Steps

Alejo Carpentier

#5. The truth was much more beautiful.

Alejo Carpentier

#6. Lots of things are impossible," she said softly. "Until they're not.

Jennifer Donnelly

#7. I asked myself whether, in bygone days, men had longed for bygone days as I, this summer morning, longed for certain ways of life that man had lost forever.

Alejo Carpentier

#8. In America everything is fantastical.

Alejo Carpentier

#9. I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

Vera Wang

#10. He felt a queer little pang of bitterness because reality seemed so different from the ideal

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

Thomas S. Monson

#12. Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species (176).

Alejo Carpentier

#13. The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#14. Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Alejo Carpentier

#15. I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

Alejo Carpentier

#16. I like to crawl away and hide in a corner."
"Well," he said, with a transitory gleam of himself, "you're my corner and I've come to hide.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. She grabbed a towel from the rail and wrapped it around him, lifting him straight out of the bath, kicking and screaming. She carried him into his bedroom and laid him with elaborate care on the bed because she was terrified she might throw him against the wall.

Liane Moriarty

#18. A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

Alejo Carpentier

#19. The old man began to lose heart at this endless return of chains, this rebirth of shackles, this proliferation of suffering, which the more resigned began to accept as proof of the uselessness of all revolt (171-172).

Alejo Carpentier

#20. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of This World (179).

Alejo Carpentier