Iparraguirre Quotes & Sayings

That's even worse. They'll steal it. Then they'll say they didn't steal it, they confiscated it. I know you Feds, you're always confiscating shit. — Neal Stephenson

In London, like in conches, Mr. MacDowell or MacDowness, time could be seen. Time was stamped in stone, in iron and in marble. And it was not only the buildings; people also occupied a place in the stratified flow of decades and centuries. — Sylvia Iparraguirre

Our existence began to materialize in another part of the city, in the Colonial Offices, in the Stock Exchange, in the Admiralty. There, through a strange alchemy of civilization, Button and I assumed our bodies, we became real, we belonged somewhere on the globe that was perfectly situated and transformed us into skins, oil, numbers. — Sylvia Iparraguirre

God is the ace up the sleeve of illogic. — Sylvia Iparraguirre

No one would look at me and think I was slave. But I had been. I still was. I probably would be forever. — Pepper Winters

The stupendous task of human regeneration will be accomplished only by the purified vision of hearts that grow not cold. — Alexander Berkman

Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world. — Sylvia Iparraguirre

For whom, I asked myself innocently, were the riches and dominions that the English conquered and held on to at any price in the most remote corners of the planet? The neighborhoods which succeeded one another interminably down the narrow cobbled streets were not inhabited by the beneficiaries of those enterprises. — Sylvia Iparraguirre

Whenever Great Britain's iron hand needs to appear, like a well-oiled mechanism that is never forgotten or neglected, the two pillars that hold up the Empire's dominion rise into view: the Administration and the Law. As I have said before . . . nothing odder than the flimsy wood and stone building called the Palace of Justice, in the farthest corner of the South Atlantic, provided so that the authorities might investigate the murder of men, who, romantically . . . went out to exercise their own rights over the life and liberty of others about whom they had not the slightest knowledge. — Sylvia Iparraguirre

For the one who writes it . . . a story is like a mirror. — Sylvia Iparraguirre

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do. — Candy Crowley

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny. — Rupert Grint

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts. — Thomas Mann

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream. — Lewis H. Lapham

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. — Tom Robbins