Castas Quotes & Sayings

I am a dead man who wanders
registered nowhere — Ingeborg Bachmann

I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is. — Jade Jones

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Even the smallest shots of positivity can give someone a serious competitive edge. Two — Shawn Achor

From at least the age of six, romantic longing
Sechnsucht
has played an unusually central part of my experience. Such longing is in itself the very reverse of wishful thinking: it is more like thoughtful wishing. — C.S. Lewis

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this. — Nick Hornby

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic — Ludwig Wittgenstein

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work. — Tony Campolo

didn't have a filter either. I tended to say what I was thinking without thinking. — L.A. Casey

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated. — Saint Basil

Surprise widened his eyes as he stepped back. "Caving in so easily?"
"Caving in?" I laughed without feeling. "I just want you out of my face."
Daemon chuckled deeply. "Keep telling yourself that, Kitten."
"Keep using your ego steroids. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Time passes. Horror does not. * — Alan Dean Foster

When you were talking about the caste system, I was thinking about how Mexicans still have to come to terms with this in our own culture. We spoke earlier about the castas paintings that were made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Mexico. The Spanish, establishing a form of racial apartheid, delineate the fifty-three categories of racial mixtures between Africans, Indians, and the Spanish. And they have names, like tiente en el aire, which means stain in the air; and salta otras, which means jump back; or mulatto, a word that comes from mula, the unnatural mating between the horse and the donkey. "Sambo" is now a racial epithet in the US, but it was first used as one of the fifty-three racial categories in the castas paintings. — Amalia Mesa-Bains