Luis Miramontes Quotes & Sayings

It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty ... than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape. — George F. Kennan

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God's revealed truth is the only faith there is. — Oswald Chambers

Estragon: And if he doesn't come?
Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes. — Samuel Beckett

After all, fiction is only fact minus time. — Mark Forsyth

The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a car came by on the highway, and its lights showed the ragged man shuffling along the road, his head hanging down and his hands in the black coat pockets. — John Steinbeck

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful. — Robert Griffin III

Honesty renders your heart defenceless, and lying fucks with your head. That's why I choose to remain silent and protect them both instead. — K.M. Golland

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. — Thom Gunn

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love ... — Leo Tolstoy