Conjunto Quotes

#1. When you here a conjunto and you hear another conjunto, you think it's like a continuation of the first. It's all the same, same, same. There's no variety, just the same music.

Compay Segundo

#2. Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.

Francois Fenelon

#3. Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.

Dave Eggers

#5. We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

Brenda Shoshanna

#6. Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced.

Ken Follett

#7. In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary.

Ted Cruz

#8. I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.

Jonathan Tasini

#9. By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

Pierre Corneille

#10. Yes. It's our duty to remember the dead. And our duty to let them go.

Kevin Hearne

#11. I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Steve Earle

#12. In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#13. The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

Baden Powell De Aquino