Iberian Quotes

#1. I know where the Iberian Peninsula is, Iris."
"I know, I know, you probably built the first road or furrowed the first wheat field ever sown there."
"Brat."
"Cradle robber."
"Grave robber.

Molly Harper

#2. I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Epicurus

#3. In 732 Charles Martel, in a defining battle, defeated the Muslim armies, forcing them back behind the mountains and confining them to the Iberian Peninsula. Had Martel lost that battle, Europe would have been a very different place. It

George Friedman

#4. One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Apuleius or Tertullian, Augustine or Athanasius. The uncanny voice of Iberian Spain, the weirdness of old Carthage, the passion of Libya and North Africa.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast - the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to the Americas - both powers had two main goals in mind: finding precious metals and planting sugarcane. (Oh, and spreading the word of God.) The

Tom Reiss

#6. And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

Federica Montseny

#7. Forgiveness shouldn't be expected : It should be earned.

Estelle Maskame

#8. You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Steve Jobs

#9. What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

Henry Rollins

#10. Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

Lord Chesterfield

#11. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#13. Be committed to the relationship you have with yourself. We get so committed to other relationships, but often sort of toss ourselves away. We get around to ourselves only now and then. So, really care for who you are. Be committed to loving yourself. Take care of your heart and soul.

Louise Hay

#14. You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

Vashti Bunyan

#15. Success and wealth would be pretty useless if I didn't have my family.

Christopher W. Hodges

#16. When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.

Patricia McBride

#17. I believe that beauty is a basic service.

Theaster Gates

#18. What about ... Cinder?" There was a hesitation, and she could tell they were doubtful about the name. She lifted her chin and explained, "It's an unassuming name, but also ... powerful. Because of where she came from. She survived that fire. She was reborn from the cinders." They

Marissa Meyer

#19. We tend to forget that everything has an ending, so enjoy it while you can still see it around you.

Angel Phetheni

#20. Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time, people thought that most common fibers were non-wettable.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes