Alejo Y Quotes

#1. In America everything is fantastical.

Alejo Carpentier

#2. One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?

Michael Heseltine

#3. We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

Marc E. Platt

#4. 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

#5. is where I am destined to live.

David Levithan

#6. Sunil rarely got angry when he discovered the secret reasons behind the ways people behaved. Having a sense of how the world operated, beyond its pretense, seemed to him an armoring thing.

Katherine Boo

#7. The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

David Bentley Hart

#8. Factions among yourselves; preferring such
To offices and honors, as ne'er read
The elements of saving policy;
But deeply skilled in all the principles
That usher to destruction.

Philip Massinger

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

Alejo Carpentier

#10. Could one write a strongly worded letter to the deceased requiring their full cooperation?

Alyxandra Harvey

#11. The truth was much more beautiful.

Alejo Carpentier

#12. Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

Peter Senge

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Remember me...When all else has been forgotten.

Rick Yancey

#16. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Dalai Lama

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

Alejo Carpentier

#18. The question you need to ask yourself is not if you will heal, but how you will heal.

O. Carl Simonton

#19. 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

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

Alejo Carpentier

#21. 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

#22. If you can create harmony in your own life, This harmony will enter into the vast world.

Sri Chinmoy

#23. 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

#24. I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

Sarah Moon

#25. It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh.

Zora Neale Hurston

#26. It's really adorable." "That sounds adorable.

Rory Wilde