Gente Bruta Quotes & Sayings

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000. — Kitty Kelley

I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night. — Ed Belfour

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen. — Robert Jordan

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities. — Nicky Oppenheimer

Jimmy Fallon is handsome. This is an indisputable fact. — Andy Kindler

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclinations. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things that are commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved: they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. — John Stuart Mill

I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people. — Natalie Portman