Borges Labyrinths Quotes

#1. On the fourth ring there's the sound of fumbling. Then Kent's voice, warm and reassuring: 'Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. How can I help you?

Lauren Oliver

#2. Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

Robert C. Solomon

#3. I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.

George W. Bush

#4. Dear V.,
I'm a terrible actor and this city is fucking freezing and I miss you.
- A.

Emily St. John Mandel

#5. I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future ... I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

Jorge Luis Borges

#6. True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

James Arthur Ray

#7. The stroke of the brush was the evidence of the gesture of your arm. A record of your existence, the quality of your personality, your touch, pressure, the authority of your movement.

Janet Fitch

#8. I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

Andy Rooney

#9. The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

Mircea Eliade

#10. I think - the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. There is a labyrinth which is a straight line.

Jorge Luis Borges

#12. I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

Kinky Friedman

#13. What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.

Nina Totenberg

#14. Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

Ron Perlman

#15. Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#16. Poor Cecil. It's hard to be a devil of a fellow in these modern times. No stagecoaches to hold up. No princesses to rescue. Just Petey Todd to escort, while the easy, expert fellow walks the pretty girl home.

Franny Billingsley