Lobo Antunes Quotes

#1. I have seen plenty of humanity. The vast majority would not help their fellow neighbor unless forced to do so at gunpoint, Nathaniel said.

Christina Henry

#2. When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right.

Cesar Chavez

#3. American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

John Newman

#4. Endless bliss, boundless love
in your heart, a gift from the universe
to fill your life, to touch your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That's because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#6. No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.

Robert Smith

#7. It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#8. I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#9. Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#10. We should all use suspenders to keep our souls from slipping down to our heels.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#11. A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#12. Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#13. God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.

Tina Samples

#14. I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#15. The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.

Wesley Pruden

#16. I thought, Hatred is vital to good health, and I thought, To find ourselves in harmony with the world is a lethal infection.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#17. It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell; there is no disputing it.

Harriet Hubbard Ayer

#18. Woman's shape under her midnight blue cloak. The cloak had made her invisible in the darkness, but up close he saw that she had golden blonde hair, so luminous that it glowed under the velvet hood. He found her attractive but sensed there was something strange about her, that she was

Alma Katsu

#19. I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart - one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#20. All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

George Foreman

#21. Every time you run
you create the quality of your own experience

Fred Rohe

#22. There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women ... and Messi

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#23. Agitated on the inside by disgust but with nothing showing in their immobile features, absolutely still, as unmoving as those of landscapes, of photographs, of summer sunsets, nothing showing in their ever-horizontal features, decomposing silently in the Formica chairs.

Antonio Lobo Antunes