Hernando Cortes Favorite Quotes & Sayings

Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words," I muttered. — Ransom Riggs

Who judges the judge who judges wrong? — Gail Carson Levine

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. — John Joly

Many people do not want to forfeit their fears. Fear is the only tool they know. — Donald L. Hicks

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Some actors wear their roles like clothing," he said. "No matter what part they're playing, you can always easily see who it is beneath the costume."
"It's how drag queens do women, darling," volunteered the elegant Miss X.
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"The really amazing actors strip themselves down to nothing-they make themselves a blank slate, and you can never guess what they're going to look like or act like in their next film because they completely transform themselves."
"It's how transsexuals do women, darling," opined Doris Fish with an arched eyebrow in my direction. — Kate Bornstein

From Pastor Malthus to the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth; from hysteria over DDT, PCBs, and natural gas "fracking"; to continuing bouts of chemo-phobia and population panic; the achievements of capitalism have suffered a long series of detractions. The factitious and febrile campaign against global warming is only the latest binge of self-abuse among the children of prosperity. — George Gilder

Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. — Emily Dickinson

Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews, you desiccated lobe-fins, you vertebrated worms, you Hoxed-up sponges, you newcomers on the block, you eukaryotes, you barely distinguishable congregations of a monotonously narrow parish, you are little more than fancy froth on the surface of bacterial life. Why, the very cells that build you are themselves colonies of bacteria, replaying the same old tricks we bacteria discovered a billion years ago. We were here before you arrived, and we shall be here after you are gone. — Richard Dawkins

With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, it's like a collectible. — Bobby Lee

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings. — Barack Obama