Aura Carlos Fuentes Quotes

#1. To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear

Marilynne Robinson

#2. If I did only what I wanted to do, I would not be obedient to the Creator. Sometimes He wants us to do certain things that we may not feel like doing. When it comes to what God asks of us, we need more than good intentions we need to follow through fully.

John Wooden

#3. I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

Imogen Poots

#4. Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Rudyard Kipling

#5. Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

Rex Stout

#6. I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.

Vaclav Havel

#7. A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I think so. Yes. No matter what.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

Quentin Crisp

#9. I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

William Steig

#10. There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.

John Daido Loori