Vencidos Translation Quotes

#1. Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.

Andy Rooney

#2. In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.

Oliver DeMille

#3. Every time you are hurt, you get a better chance to build a better shield!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

Stanley Hauerwas

#5. If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

Salman Rushdie

#6. Pierre Bourdieu once noted that, if the academic field is a game in which scholars strive for dominance, then you know you have won when other scholars start wondering how to make an adjective out of your name

Anonymous

#7. While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.

Jim Beaver

#8. The next time I went anywhere with Mad Rogan, I'd bring one of those bandoliers action stars wore when they routed terrorists from jungles.

Ilona Andrews

#9. Love was a hundred times worse than all the stupid songs could ever try to explain. And when he loved you back, it was too much. Like all of those feelings could never fit. You'd have to spend your life trying to figure out how, but it wouldn't matter as long as he kept looking at you like that.

K.A. Mitchell

#10. At the age of 46, forgetfulness & confusion had become a daily aspect of life.

Steven Magee

#11. One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is to be able to decide, to judge, to have opinions and convictions, and to entertain a point of view. To be able to think is to be able to love, to believe, to work, to originate, and to organize.

Sterling W. Sill

#12. Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma!
Foma, of course, are lies.

Kurt Vonnegut