Top 39 Quotes About Alvaro
#1. The combination of mental and physical practice leads to greater performance improvement than does physical practice alone, a phenomenon for which our findings provide a physiological explanation. - Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Oliver Sacks
#2. What do you want, Alvaro?
- Kristine
Ikaw. Marry me.
- Alvaro
Martha Cecilia
#3. Some things come too soon and others come too late, but we only find out when there's nothing to be done, when we've already bet against ourselves.
Alvaro Mutis
#4. The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world's greatest love poems, because they're love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.
Alvaro De Campos
#5. When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
Alvaro Uribe
#6. No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.
Alvaro Uribe
#7. For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.
Alvaro Uribe
#8. The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.
Alvaro Uribe
#9. When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.
Alvaro De Vasconcelos
#11. I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, "Are you at peace with yourself?" and he answered, "No, I'm at peace." It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.
Alvaro De Campos
#12. in exceptional circumstances - exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.
Alvaro De Campos
#13. He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.
Alvaro De Campos
#14. Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.
Alvaro Siza Vieira
#15. I consider a dream like I consider a shadow," answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. "A shadow is real, but it's less real than a rock. A dream is real - if it weren't, it wouldn't be a dream - but less real than a thing. That's what being real is like.
Alvaro De Campos
#16. I always want to be the thing I feel kinship with...
To feel everything in every way,
To hold all opinions,
To be sincere contradicting oneself every minute...
Alvaro De Campos
#17. Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.
Alvaro Mutis
#19. In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
Alvaro Uribe
#20. Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five years old. Most people lose that spontaneity; I think that always happens. Some are able to win a second spontaneity.
Alvaro Siza
#21. Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.
Alvaro De Campos
#22. But I was in this bowling league with a good number of friends who came from across the line. We got the phone call that the border had been closed, and that absolutely nobody was being allowed to cross
not parents, not children, not anybody. Who knew what disguise the assassin had used.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#23. I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.
Alvaro Uribe
#24. Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.
Alvaro De Vasconcelos
#25. Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.
Alvaro De Campos
#26. Adults have
the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct.
When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and
sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of
loss.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#27. The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.
Alvaro De Vasconcelos
#28. It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.
Alvaro De Vasconcelos
#29. Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.
Alvaro Mutis
#31. When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.
Alvaro Uribe
#33. and the idea of nothingness - the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling - has, in my dear master's work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks.
Alvaro De Campos
#34. His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there's none there, and it can't be criticized as temperament, because temperament can't be criticized.
Alvaro De Campos
#35. It was just spooky ... The Bird-man, the War-man, those guys, and that day we tried to find out something. I don't know if we did, though. Maybe that was the point. Maybe it was something about what's personal. I don't know, but it's lasted a long time.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#36. Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.
Alvaro De Vasconcelos
#37. 2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.
Alvaro Mutis
#38. The curious measure, of course, is that we fail to recognize the most obvious notion in all of this: that we ourselves are the best magicians we know. What our bodies do, what our minds accomplish, and the context we can give to things, how we make it all fit together, this is something.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#39. the Great Vaccination - the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.
Alvaro De Campos
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