Top 32 Juan Gabriel Vasquez Quotes
#2. I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#3. Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.
Radhanath Swami
#4. Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#5. I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
Woodrow Wilson
#6. Sometimes I think," he told me the only time we talked somewhat seriously, "I've never looked anyone in the eye." It was an exaggeration, but I'm not sure the man was exaggerating on purpose. After all, he wasn't looking me in the eye when he said those words.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#8. The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#9. They talked of intentions and projects, convinced, as only new lovers can be, that saying what you wanted was the same as saying who you are.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#12. When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#13. How quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.
Elizabeth Lesser
#15. The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that's the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#16. In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#17. Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#18. There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#19. In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.
Frank Lampard
#20. The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#21. I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#22. You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.
Chris O'Donnell
#23. There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton
Robbie Savage
#24. Elaine complained about this at night, in her matrimonial bed, and then complained that in Colombia all the citizens were political but no politician wanted to do anything for the citizens.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#25. This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.
Lauren Oliver
#26. Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#28. The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.
Arthur J. Deikman
#29. Our democracy is a people's democracy, and it can be as great as people can be, but it is also as fallible as people are.
George Takei
#30. Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.
Paula McLain
#31. A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
#32. I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.
Josh Duhamel
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