Jacobo Quotes

#1. The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

#2. One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.

Jacobo Timerman

#3. We believed ourselves indestructable ... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

Jacobo Timerman

#4. Names did have a power, if they were used in the right way.

John Connolly

#5. We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.

Pope John Paul II

#6. On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.

Stephen Kinzer

#7. No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.

Jacobo Timerman

#8. All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

Patrick Lindsay

#9. I've always been a little soft. I like to eat.

Chris Pratt

#10. I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.

Jacobo Timerman

#11. The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed to be entirely peopled by blocked dramatists, likeably shambling poets, and one-off novelists. The whole place felt like a clubworld sunset home for literary talent.

Martin Amis

#12. You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible.

Mario Chalmers