Quotes About Vila

#1. Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.

James Vila Blake

#2. The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing that doesn't suit a novelist in action, when he's in the course of writing his novel.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#3. When a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

James Vila Blake

#4. As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

James Vila Blake

#5. When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#6. I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.

Sharon Stone

#7. We can't control what other people do and how they decide to treat us, but we can control our response to them. Don't let other people's behavior control you. Don't let them steal your joy; remember that your anger won't change them, but prayer can.

Joyce Meyer

#8. Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.

James Vila Blake

#9. I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?

Enrique Vila-Matas

#10. He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#11. As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.

James Vila Blake

#12. To miniaturize is also to conceal.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#13. Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#14. As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#15. This is our great covenant:
To dwell together in peace,
To seek the truth in love,
And to help one another.

James Vila Blake

#16. We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

James Vila Blake

#17. The tsunami that cleared the shoreline like a giant bulldozer has presented developers with an undreamed-of opportunity, and they have moved quickly to seize it. - Seth Mydans, International Herald Tribune, March 10,

Naomi Klein

#18. As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

James Vila Blake

#19. After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined?

Enrique Vila-Matas

#20. I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#21. The last thing I wanted was to fall in love
because, deep down, I remembered that love hurt.

Joss Stirling

#22. Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.

India.Arie

#23. This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

Fernando Rodes Vila

#24. I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#25. It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#26. Hey, precious." A pretty brunette slid to Tristan's side out of the blue.
Precious? Who does she think she is? Gollum?

Tatiana Vila

#27. It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

James Vila Blake

#28. Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

James Vila Blake

#29. Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

James Vila Blake

#30. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

Carl Sagan

#31. An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

James Vila Blake

#32. Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

James Clavell

#33. The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.

James Vila Blake