Felipe Fernandez-armesto Quotes

#1. To become a great saint, it is no bad first step to be a big sinner.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#2. Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#3. When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut, the border patrols fix bayonets, the vigilantes get busy, and the walls go up.

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#4. Blame the city I'm a product of it

Drake

#5. Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night

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#6. It aligns the cannibals with their real modern counterparts: those who eat "health" diets for self-improvement or worldly success or moral superiority or enhanced beauty or personal purity. Strangely, cannibals turn out to have a lot in common with vegans.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#7. Rare takes place in many forms The beauty found the home when she touched the ground She flies ;Rare beauty beneath the skies,Rare beauty

Sheila Woolum

#8. I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

Quincy Jones

#9. Should she pretend to like it, when she really did, all while pretending that she didn't?

Sharon Cameron

#10. [P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#11. I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#12. Hurricane Irene ... the storm was huge news. In fact, the Weather Channel reported something they haven't seen in years. Viewers.

Jimmy Fallon

#13. There has never been nationhood without falsehood.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#14. Truth threatens peace. Those who think they possess it tend to turn into victimizers of the rest, like all the other bullies convinced of the superiority of their own race or class or caste or blood or wisdom.

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#15. Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.

Yoko Ono

#16. Believe him when he tells you you are beautiful
it will only hurt you both not to
(it is true besides)

Francesca Lia Block

#17. I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

Adam Johnson

#18. My lineage is for me enough, / Content to live without expensive stuff" was Alonso Manrique's motto, but he was an accomplished poet.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#19. Chinese naval activity, for instance, was aborted after Zheng He's last voyage, probably as a result of

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#20. All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.

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#21. The myth of Native Americans' talent for conservationism before the arrival of the white man is belied by the evidence of the scale of their slaughters.

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#22. Yet we keep returning to reason precisely because it occupies the middle place; it is the revisited point on the swing of the pendulum between scepticism and enthusiasm.

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#23. She looks like what fishermen don't want after hours spent cutting debris out of their nets.

Yannick Murphy

#24. She felt that everything was made of glass, as fragile as a sigh

Isabel Allende

#25. He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin

#26. Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto