Bastos E Quotes & Sayings

Art problems are problems of human relationship. — Josef Albers

Introduction I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. Although I was given a dry, leathery corpse to dissect in my first term, that was solely a way to learn about human anatomy. Our textbooks had almost nothing on aging or frailty or dying. How the process unfolds, how people experience the end of their lives, and how it affects those around them seemed beside the point. The way we saw it, and the way our professors saw it, the purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise. The one time I remember discussing mortality was during an hour we spent on The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy's classic novella. — Atul Gawande

Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness. — Robert Muller

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people. — Augusto Roa Bastos

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. — Augusto Roa Bastos

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. — Augusto Roa Bastos

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. — Augusto Roa Bastos

I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space. — Sam Heughan

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. — Augusto Roa Bastos

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Life is risk. I could get cancer. Or get hit by a car. You could wrap me in bubble wrap and keep me indoors and I could still get sick. I know that I could lose you too. And as much as I don't want to say it, someday you're going to die."
Her voice broke on the last word. "But I choose to love you now and I choose to build a life with you knowing I could lose you. I'm asking you to make that same choice. I'm asking you to take the risk, with me. — Sylvain Reynard

On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined. — Edward Witten

Dimitri might run off with Tasha, but I would still love him. I would probably always love him. — Richelle Mead

Question everything generally thought to be obvious. — Dieter Rams

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. — Augusto Roa Bastos

There is always time to take more time. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't. — Meghan Daum

As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started. — Robert Breault

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. — Augusto Roa Bastos

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words. — Augusto Roa Bastos