Nando Parrado Quotes

#1. Things make sense. There are rules and realities that will not change to suit your needs. It's your job to understand those rules. If you do, and if you work hard and work smart, you will be all right.

Nando Parrado

#2. It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image. - Colette

Judith Viorst

#3. It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.

Edith Wharton

#4. I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.

Nando Parrado

#5. To be wise for one day is better than to be intelligent for a hundred.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Being on the set of 'Super 8' was a very fun and relaxed environment.

Ryan Lee

#7. Let out of his stall with the two men standing by, Seabiscuit head-butted Howard. Smith made his case in four sentences: Get me that horse. He has real stuff in him. I can improve him. I'm positive

Laura Hillenbrand

#8. We understood, intuitively, that no one in this awful place could be judged by the standards of the ordinary world.

Nando Parrado

#9. What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.

Alfred W. Crosby

#10. My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love.

Nando Parrado

#11. We all have our personal Andes.

Nando Parrado

#12. I would walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell, I would die that much closer to home.

Nando Parrado

#13. But Bryony knew what he was feeling, and about three weeks after the massaging had begun, she gave him a potion that Eswara had given her, a concoction of cinnamon, mace, cloves, nutmeg and lavender which she had said would send the blood rushing through all parts of his anatomy. All.

Sorcha MacMurrough

#14. What's going on here, Tommy? Has Keffers recruited you for his porn patrol?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#15. Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes.

Italo Calvino

#16. We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible - play well or die - but we didn't even know the ground rules.

Nando Parrado

#17. Get deep with me. Set your thoughts free.

Mark Patterson

#18. A human being, as I've said before, gets used to anything.

Nando Parrado

#19. As we used to say in the mountains, "Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive." After all these years, this still the best advice I can give you: Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

Nando Parrado

#20. I tell them I am not at peace in spite of what I suffered, but because of it.

Nando Parrado

#21. Even here, even as we suffer, life is still worth living ...

Nando Parrado

#22. I wasn't born mediocre, i won't achieve mediocrity, and i will not let anyone put it on me. i will kill you.

Darnell Lamont Walker