Quotes About Bastos

#1. Defiance means you got somebody with power over you.

Pearl Cleage

#2. And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

Liev Schreiber

#3. There is always time to take more time.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#4. To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#5. This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.

Donal Logue

#6. At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

R.C. Sproul

#7. The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#8. Panic is the last thing we can afford," Coppelia said. "Panic will have everyone rushing off in different directions to try to 'save the Library.' Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.

Genevieve Cogman

#9. No soft-skinned, lace-covered, dandified profligate would ever take this house and make it his.
Ever.

Karen Hawkins

#10. Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.

Dennis Rainey

#11. Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#12. It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#13. Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#14. The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#15. Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#16. Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#17. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#18. James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.

Emile Hirsch

#19. Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#20. The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#21. In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Augusto Roa Bastos