Konchucos Quotes

#1. I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#2. If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I'm not on the journey in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

Steve Pavlina

#4. Death will be my wedding, children and glory.

Euripides

#5. But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

John Keats

#6. There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

China Mieville

#7. The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

Patrick O'Brian

#8. If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem.

Lewis Hamilton

#9. When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

Lynn Johnston

#10. A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

Irshad Manji

#11. Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

Dominick Dunne

#12. There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Isaac Newton

#13. There are stories you'll learn if you're strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. Time seemed to do that thing everyone knew was impossible.

It stood still.

Sandra Marton

#15. Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

Zach Wamp

#16. Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair ... they feel.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson