Miguel Asturias Quotes

#1. Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Richard Rogers

#2. Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#3. Rise and demand; you are a burning flame.
You are sure to conquer there where the final horizon
Becomes a drop of blood, a drop of life,
Where you will carry the universe on your shoulders,
Where the universe will bear your hope.

Miguel Angel Asturias

#4. Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.

Anna Sewell

#5. Classical Islamic civilization had long passed its prime when the Mongols arrived on the scene in the thirteenth century, and was already in an advance state of what most historians would call decline.

Bernard Lewis

#6. Are you alone?" "No, I've got the local cricket team with me ready to have hot sex on your kitchen table.

Anonymous

#7. However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

Miguel Angel Asturias

#8. Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.

Joyce Rachelle

#9. There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.

John Burnham Schwartz