Avellanos Quotes

#1. Don Jose Avellanos depended very much upon the devotion of his beloved Antonia. He accepted it in the benighted way of men, who, though made in God's image, are like stone idols without sense before the smoke of certain burnt offerings.

Joseph Conrad

#2. The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

Louis Dudek

#3. O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

William Shakespeare

#4. Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Don Tapscott

#5. The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

Gregory Benford

#6. I look back the old old ones [X-Files series], from the beginning, and I'm kind of mortified by my acting! But I'm kind of impressed by my enthusiasm. I'm just thankful that I got to become better at what I did, and that we didn't get cancelled in the first year.

David Duchovny

#7. If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -

Sam Smith

#8. It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

Ingrid Newkirk

#9. PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

Ai Weiwei

#11. Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux