Paquito De Rivera Quotes & Sayings

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them. — Arno Penzias

A history professor at university had once told her, Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face. — James S.A. Corey

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world ... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. — George Washington

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us. — Christian Nestell Bovee

We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers. — Tony Blair

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect. — Frank Tashlin

Fail better worse now. — Samuel Beckett

I am learning to reevaluate all concepts and notions long associated with love. — Ena

I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race. — James Weldon Johnson

Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's about fifty years old, and he's bald. And I'll bet he has to cut his toenails too like any other man. I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead. — Ursula K. Le Guin