Benedetti Quotes & Sayings

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color. — Adlai E. Stevenson

In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds — Mario Benedetti

The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the morning, he feels as if someone is trying to influence his will in some way: he is a person with a thousand pressures. The Americans live under a great strain ... and have great feelings of frustration. — Fidel Castro

I plan to make the case that we need to move beyond religion if we want to continue the kind of remarkable intellectual and social progress we've enjoyed since the "Enlightenment. — Alan Jeskin

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. — Robert Jordan

It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good intentions or natural talent. First and foremost there must be a spirit of sacrifice. — Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it! — Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

A similar tradition on the creative power of letters forms the basis of the following midrash on Job 28:11.... This brings us to the text that played so important a part in the development of the golem concept: the Book of Yetsirah or the Book of Creation.... We do not know the exact date of this enigmatic text,.... We can only be sure that it was written by a Jewish Neo-Pythagorean some time between the third and sixth century. — Gershom Scholem

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. — Mario Benedetti

But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good tilled earth. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is. — Mario Benedetti

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. — Gregory David Roberts

They're only Scotch pearls," he said, apologetically, "but they look bonny on you." His fingers lingered a moment on my neck. "Those were your mother's pearls!" said Dougal, glowering at the necklace. "Aye," said Jamie calmly, "and now they're my wife's. Shall we go? — Diana Gabaldon

It isn't that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand everything, or tell you everything at once, or that I can know, beforehand, everything I need to tell you.
It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive, to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. That we both know we are trying, all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us.
The possibility of life between us. — Adrienne Rich

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle. — Mario Benedetti

A confession: solitude no longer hurt me. — Mario Benedetti

I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a concept and hold on to it until I come across the right music that makes a marriage. — Pharoahe Monch

Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn. — Paulo Coelho

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. — Albert Einstein

I have high hopes for the book and have already made a down payment on a Ferrari. Well, it's actually a small metal model of a Ferrari, kind of like a Dinky Toy, but a little bit bigger. — Paul Benedetti

My tactic is to look at you
To learn how you are
Love you as you are
My tactic is to talk to you
And listen to you
And construct with words
An indestructible bridge
My tactic is to stay in your memory
I don't know how
Nor with what pretext
But stay within you
My tactic is to be honest
And know you are too
And that we don't sell each other illusions
So that between us there is no curtain or abyss
My strategy instead is
Deeper and simpler.
My strategy is that some day
I don't know how, nor with what pretext
That finally you need me. — Mario Benedetti

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general. — Mario Benedetti

what the play is about Supertask Break the play down into its component parts Bits Decide what each actor has to do in each of the component parts, what does he want or need Tasks Decide on what he does to fulfil that need Actions Check whether the sequence of needs and actions is logical and coherent and — Jean Benedetti

Ah, christ, what a CREW:
more
poetry, always more
POETRY — Charles Bukowski

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet. — Mario Benedetti

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile. — Mario Benedetti

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day. — Mario Benedetti

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. — Mario Benedetti

Perfection is a polished collection of errors. — Mario Benedetti

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder. — Mario Benedetti

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life. — Mario Benedetti

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers. — Mario Benedetti