Valladares Quotes

#1. You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don't know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?

Noah Hawley

#2. Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.

Armando Valladares

#3. I have become convinced that hatred towards the U.S. has been a chief reason for Castro's longevity in power

Armando Valladares

#4. I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

Eric Maisel

#6. Self-love diminishes no one. It blesses others.

Annette Vaillancourt

#7. I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.

Mary McGarry Morris

#8. Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?

Des Browne

#9. Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

Ray Bradbury

#11. There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

Alex Van Halen

#12. No, I won't do it. I will not be locked into your head in this way. I will not participate in this drama for the sake of your fiction. Oh, darling, the hell with your fiction.

Philip Roth

#13. Unbelievably, while many non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International and America's Watch have denounced the human rights situation in Cuba, there has been a continuing love affair on the part of the media and many intellectuals with Fidel Castro.

Armando Valladares

#14. People's participation is the essence of good governance.

Narendra Modi

#15. Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Barbara Bush

#16. Merit: I am yours until you ban bacon, or otherwise as long as I can put up with you.

Chloe Neill

#17. A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Dennis Ritchie

#18. Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Lord Acton

#19. The guards were making a butcher shop out of the stairways. There was a hail of blows with chains, bayonets, and truncheons. They were breaking heads and arms.

Armando Valladares

#20. There was not one witness to accuse me, there was no one to identify me, there was not a single piece of evidence against me. I was found guilty, simply out of the mistaken "conviction" held by the Political Police. And sadly, my case was no exception.

Armando Valladares