Top 21 Quevedo Quotes
#1. Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,
all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
William Cowper
#2. He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
Francisco De Quevedo
#3. The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#4. In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!
Francisco De Quevedo
#5. I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.
Barack Obama
#6. What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
Douglas Coupland
#7. Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.
Francisco De Quevedo
#8. Incidentally, this is the only letter I'll send - don't think I'll turn you in, don't think for a second I'd alert the authorities, I mean, fuck them, and certainly, of course, fuck you, but above everything fuck them. I've always stood for that. Admittedly not much else.
Denis Johnson
#9. Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean De La Fontaine
#10. Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative.
John Sayles
#11. Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.
Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
#12. Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes
Francisco De Quevedo
#13. Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.
Jane Fonda
#15. They say everything in the world is good for something.
John Dryden
#16. My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
Jack Markell
#18. Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)
Francisco De Quevedo
#19. Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
Rachel Kushner
#20. Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.
Kenny Chesney
#21. We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
Francisco De Quevedo
