Quotes About Hernan Cortes

#1. After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

Lou Holtz

#2. Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

Hernan Cortes

#3. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Sigmund Freud

#4. Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

Theodor Adorno

#5. What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

Dogen

#6. There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.

Hernan Cortes

#7. An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.

Hernan Cortes

#8. If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you ... it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt.

Ingrid Weir

#9. The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

Hernan Cortes

#10. We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

Hernan Cortes

#11. There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

Hernan Cortes

#12. The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

Hernan Cortes

#13. The common damn'd shun their society.

Robert Blair

#14. The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

Hernan Cortes

#15. Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

Hernan Cortes

#16. A vast unfocused rage rose in her, against men who considered displays of emotion a delicious open door; men who ogled your breasts under the pretense of scanning the wine shelves; men for whom your mere physical presence constituted a lubricious invitation. Her

Robert Galbraith

#17. This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

Ellen Page

#18. This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Hernan Cortes

#19. It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.

Alva Noto

#20. Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty. As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal women think men are pigs: Their men are pigs.

Ann Coulter

#21. The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

Andrew Davies

#22. A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

C.S. Lewis

#23. He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

Hernan Cortes

#24. Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.

Janeane Garofalo