Garcilaso De La Vega Quotes

#1. The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

Clive Thompson

#2. With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task) ...

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#3. It is the place of a holy man not to burden others with his troubles, but to relieve others of their burden,

Joseph R. Lallo

#4. The writer is the visionary of his people ... He anticipates, he warns.

Wole Soyinka

#5. In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.

Paul Monette

#6. He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

Stephen L. Carter

#7. For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

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#8. Character is destiny,

Matthew Mahone

#9. [The clerk] held in front of him a scroll with a red wax seal affixed, the kind of thing believed to make a document official - or at least expensive and difficult to understand, which, in fact, amounts to the same thing.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this.
He turns out the light.
BLACKOUT

Harold Pinter

#11. Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.

Holly Holm

#12. When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough