Quotes About Conquistadors

#1. These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

Alistair Cooke

#2. Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

Yvon Chouinard

#3. While love lasts it should be relished, gobbled up like ice cream, explored as the conquistadors explored the unknown continent. But when love evaporates, when love hurts, we must learn to let go of the idea that love is forever.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.

Peter Shaffer

#5. We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.

Lydia Millet

#6. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there ...

Yvon Chouinard

#7. First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition - isn't.

T. Colin Campbell

#8. The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

Marcel Proust

#9. Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

John Steinbeck

#10. Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

Dick Thornburgh

#11. Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

Noam Chomsky

#12. Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

Salvador Dali

#13. Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

Nelson Rodrigues

#14. A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that purpose.

Thomas Carlyle

#15. I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

Natalie Imbruglia

#16. I tried so hard to find life within myself, to live for something great - something that would make life worth living

B.P. Morgan

#17. I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

Cass Elliot

#18. Coffee and love taste the same, bittersweet!

Saravana Kumar Murugan

#19. They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them

Robin Williams

#20. He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Sigmund Freud

#22. If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#23. My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Maya Lin