Quotes About Incas

#1. Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

Floyd Skloot

#2. I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible.

Frank Gehry

#3. Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#4. The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

Carlos Fuentes

#5. I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.

Mario Testino

#6. Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain.

Mario Testino

#7. I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Tahir Shah

#8. Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.

Paul Simon

#9. Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#10. With my simple writings I want to change the mindset of humanity so that they themselves can create a positive new world where they can live with dignity and peace.

Debasish Mridha

#11. From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

Stanley Hauerwas

#12. The law perfected nothing, but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God. Hebrews 7:19

Beth Moore

#13. The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed ... The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

E.F. Schumacher

#14. Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

Anna Chlumsky

#15. We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

Robert Breault

#16. I probably loved him as best as I knew how.

Steve Brezenoff

#17. There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

Baron De Montesquieu

#18. The fortune of war is always doubtful.

Seneca The Younger