Juan Carlos Ferrero Quotes

#1. The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

Felix Adler

#2. Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.

Karl Marx

#3. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

#4. The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Heraclitus

#5. You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

Aryn Kyle

#6. It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#7. The healthiest food in the supermarket - the fresh produce - doesn't boast about its healthfulness, because the growers don't have the budget or the packaging. Don't take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.

Michael Pollan

#8. I am taking a risk with my claycourt schedule. It is pretty heavy from now up until Roland Garros. I am scheduled to have one week off before Paris. Playing here is not as tiring as competing abroad. I wanted to see this tournament happen and now that we have the event, I want to see it grow.

Juan Carlos Ferrero

#9. Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

Richard Wright

#10. If the soul within us does not change, Judas, the world outside us will never change. The enemy is within, the Romans are within, salvation starts from within!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#11. I wanted to show, as Tooly's life enfolds [in The Rise & Fall of Great Powers], how one's earliest stories condition how one encounters the world: what one expects of strangers, whether one counts on justice, whether one veers into cynicism or veers back again.

Tom Rachman

#12. Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#13. He has a strange face. It's all sharpness and angles and incredibly fair skin. But then he's got this thatch of black hair that's such a contrast. It's like two cultures had a massive fight over his face and neither won.

Melina Marchetta

#14. The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, started talking about the fact that it was talking, and then paused briefly before asking itself how it started talking in the first place.

Christine Kenneally

#15. Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean De La Bruyere