Montevideo Quotes

#1. I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

Mario Benedetti

#2. Montevideo is a beautiful city with a very European style. It's a small city, but with a lot of cultural movement and a lot of personality. At the same time, it's a very chill city.

Juan Campodonico

#3. I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

Eduardo Galeano

#4. When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.

Luis Suarez

#5. Sasha? What is it?" My face slipped off my palm and jerked my shoulders toward the table. Blinking away the daydream, I tore my eyes away from the balmy day peeking out of the window. My boyfriend, Jared, stared at me out of a cute, boyish face, his eyebrows quirked quizzically.

K.F. Breene

#6. ..., and I went back to my old habit of walking the halls looking down most of the time. It was different now, though - before I'd done it without thinking, because I didn't know another way. Now I was actively avoiding a life I knew might be out there. But it was my choice.

Michelle Falkoff

#7. Words are words, but more is heard when more is learned.

A.G. Porter

#8. Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.

Alexandra Katehakis

#9. Do you want to spend most of your life paying off the interest of a 30-year mortgage and working so you can fill increasingly bigger houses with increasingly more stuff while being stuck in your daily commute in increasingly nicer cars?

Jacob Lund Fisker

#10. Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life ...

Wayne Dyer

#11. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#12. [ ... ] we can't make a decision between being sad for a little while and being wretched for the rest of our lives. Or rather we've made the decision and have trouble finding the courage to carry it through.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#13. I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

Mikhail Lermontov

#14. I change the world and the world changes me

Libba Bray

#15. No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

Lucretius

#16. The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government.

William O. Douglas