Top 100 Quotes About Luis
#1. There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#2. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges
#4. Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.
Jorge Luis Borges
#6. I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.
Jorge Luis Borges
#7. There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
Jorge Luis Borges
#8. My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
Adrian McKinty
#9. Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
Jorge Luis Borges
#10. A mystical path requires courage as you must take a first step of faith so that the second may be of science.
Luis Marques
#11. If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.
Luis Gonzalez
#12. Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue.
Luis Fortuno
#13. What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
Jorge Luis Borges
#14. No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
Jorge Luis Borges
#15.
,all our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.
Jorge Luis Borges
#16. The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
Jorge Luis Borges
#17. We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.
Luis Gutierrez
#18. If we think of the novel and the epic ... The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero
a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character.
Jorge Luis Borges
#19. Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it.
Luis Marques
#20. In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.
Jorge Luis Borges
#21. I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.
Jorge Luis Borges
#22. It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born.
Jorge Luis Borges
#23. If we don't change, nothing will change, everything will continue as is or continue to worsen.
Luis Gutierrez-Poucel
#24. It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.
Luis Palau
#25. If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.
Jorge Luis Borges
#26. We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods.
Jorge Luis Borges
#27. The current business model for language education is the student pays - in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world's population doesn't have $500.
Luis Von Ahn
#28. Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.
Jorge Luis Borges
#30. Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#32. Wich is the ultimate struggle, the one fight really worth fighting.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#33. Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.
Jose Luis Peixoto
#34. I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.
Luis Gutierrez
#36. In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
Jorge Luis Borges
#38. I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
Luis Fortuno
#40. Look, there's no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There's not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can't use your hands.
Luis Suarez
#41. The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
Jorge Luis Borges
#42. When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.
Luis Suarez
#43. One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.
Luis Palau
#44. As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
Luis Figo
#45. In death we shall rediscover all the instants of our life and we shall freely combine them as in dreams.
Jorge Luis Borges
#46. You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all ... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
Luis Bunuel
#47. Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.
Luis Bunuel
#48. I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.
Luis Miguel
#49. The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Jorge Luis Borges
#51. I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
Jorge Luis Borges
#53. I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.
Jorge Luis Borges
#54. Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself.
Luis Marques
#55. I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it ... But let me say, conversely, I am as committed as any Republican to ending illegal immigration as we know it ... They want to end it. So do I.
Luis Gutierrez
#56. That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
Jorge Luis Borges
#57. I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!
Luis Gonzalez
#58. A writer always begins by being too complicated - he's playing at several games at once.
Jorge Luis Borges
#59. I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.
Jorge Luis Borges
#60. What will my redeemer be like? I wonder. Will he be a bull or a man? Will he perhaps be a bull with the face of a man? Or will he be like me?
Jorge Luis Borges
#62. When people write in favor or against anybody, that hardly helps or hurts them ... man can be done or undone by his own writing, not by what other people say of him.
Jorge Luis Borges
#63. I read Borges, Jorge Luis Borges. He think he too good for me, but I love him ... he was a blind man who see better than anyone
Sheridan Hay
#64. I understand why biting is seen so badly.
Luis Suarez
#65. When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.
Luis Valdez
#66. Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed it an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times.
Jorge Luis Borges
#67. At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.
Christopher Hitchens
#68. The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.
Luis Gonzalez
#69. Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.
Luis Fortuno
#70. Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.
Luis Figo
#71. You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
Jorge Luis Borges
#72. What bitter slavishness, that of my face, that of one of my former faces. This odious fate reserved for my features must perforce make me odious too, but I no longer care.
Jorge Luis Borges
#74. The red mammoth in the cave at Pindal is very special because its heart, also red, is depicted inside its chest.
Juan Luis Arsuaga
#75. I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.
Luis De Guindos
#76. The most important thing for me to succeed in is day by day becoming a better and more prepared person.
Luis Gerardo Mendez
#77. Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.
Luis Palau
#78. The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay.
Luis Suarez
#79. It is also said that it takes the shape of a man pointing to both heaven and earth, in order to show that the lower world is the map and mirror of the higher
Jorge Luis Borges
#80. A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
Luis Bunuel
#81. Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
Jorge Luis Borges
#82. The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.
Jorge Luis Borges
#83. The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.
Valentino Rossi
#84. Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.
Luis Gonzalez
#88. At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.
Luis Suarez
#89. Who was to say that God did not use the coyote's teeth to eat His gifts?
Luis Alberto Urrea
#90. What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
Jorge Luis Borges
#91. I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.
Luis Miguel
#92. The present is the instant in which the future crumbles into the past.
Jorge Luis Borges
#93. I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.
Luis Barragan
#94. If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified.
Jorge Luis Borges
#95. I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.
Luis Von Ahn
#96. A retrospective's huge potential for learning should not be off-limits to any team member.
Luis Goncalves
#97. All I can say is that I have arrived with the desire to be a success at Barca, that I am hungry to win titles.
Luis Suarez
#98. I have a dream of getting a visa, which is a dream that many people have so they can leave their countries to come someplace else, specifically they want to come to the United States.
Juan Luis Guerra
#99. I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.
Luis Suarez
#100. My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
Jorge Luis Borges
