Leonardo Padura Quotes

#1. The natives of those remote deserts have glorified stones, because they assure in their capacity for resistance, that there is a force, enclosed forever inside of them, like the fruit of an eternal will.

Leonardo Padura

#2. Those were people launched into an exodus of biblical proportions, pushed only by the will to survive; beings weighed down with an enormous list of frustrations and tangible losses with gazes from which even dignity had disappeared.

Leonardo Padura

#3. He rubs his nose over mine. 'Sleep well?'

He wants a chat now? Sparks are flying off all over the place down below and he wants to chat? 'Very.' I roll my h*ps suggestively.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#4. Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

Jon Oringer

#5. Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#6. He checked his parachute and launched himself into the Sea of Sarcasm.
Havana Red

Leonardo Padura

#7. I'm like it's - it's like taking out whatever you have in your fridge and putting it in a bowl and eating it.

Trisha Yearwood

#8. I will remain on Spartacus's side, never with the Caesars, and even against science I am going to maintain my trust in the ability of the working masses to free themselves from the yoke of capitalism, since whoever has seen the masses in action knows that it is possible.

Leonardo Padura

#9. The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together

Melanie Charlene

#10. I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

Ernest Gaines

#11. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.

Auliq Ice

#12. Was Marxism just one more ideology, a form of false consciousness that led its supporters and the oppressed classes to believe they were fighting for their own ends when in reality they were benefiting the interests of a new governing class? ...

Leonardo Padura

#13. Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

Liev Schreiber

#14. Those were the times when the great disenchantment set in.

Leonardo Padura

#15. You ... can ride a bike, can't you?"
"Sure I can," I said, getting onto one of the squeaky things. "At least I used to be able to. Haven't done it in years, but it's like riding a bike, right?"
"Technically, yes.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Samuel Johnson

#17. Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

Evan Wolfson

#18. The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Henri Nouwen

#19. The strictly theoretical and so attractive dream of possible equality had been traded for the worst authoritarian nightmare in history when it was applied to reality, understood, with good reason (more, in this case), as the only criterion of truth.

Leonardo Padura

#20. since pain and misery are among the few things that, when shared, always multiply. The

Leonardo Padura