Javier De La Cruz Quotes & Sayings

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know. — Tom Courtenay

The ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished. — David Halberstam

What boy could resist you?"
"Will's hardly a boy."
"Don't give me that. He's a boy playing a game," Norris said. "The oldest game there is. — Caragh M. O'Brien

The least step forward in the domain of free thought and individual life has been achieved in all ages to the accompaniment of physical and intellectual tortures: and not only the mere step forward, no! but every form of movement and change has rendered necessary innumerable martyrs, throughout the entire course of thousands of years which sought their paths and laid down their foundation-stones, years, however, which we do not think of when we speak about "world-history," that ridiculously small division of mankind's existence. And even in this so-called world-history, which in the main is merely a great deal of noise about the latest novelties, there is no more important theme than the old, old tragedy of the martyrs who tried to move the mire. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression. — Casey Stengel

We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we're wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned. — Michael Cunningham

And I couldn't help wondering where the hell the fatherland was, what exactly were we fighting for? Did I find out? Ah, that's a good point. It may sound strange, but from talking to the other militiamen I realised it was our childhood memories we were fighting for. — Andres Neuman

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point. — Emma Bonino

Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy. — Philip Treacy

With kids, what you see is what you get. There's just truth in their innocence that we as adults have lost and will never regain. — Michelle Figley

As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Chip Robbins, how many times have I told you not to yell out for me unless you're being stabbed with a pitchfork? — J.D. Robb

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier. — Margaret Atwood

You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more. — John Lennon

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat. — Marianne Williamson