Pinochet Coup Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me. — Karen Joy Fowler

The most important thing is to be excellent, interesting, authentic, or useful. To be the thing, not the thing that sells the thing. That's fantastic news for creative people, who specialize in the stuff. Thanks to toomuchness, creativity, once exclusively the province of poets, has suddenly become a business imperative. — Andrew Essex

There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. — John Tillotson

Everything about you matters: the breath you breathe, the tears you cry, the smiles you give, the sound of your laughter, how your mind thinks, the values you hold dear. — Tijan

No dream is ever just a dream. — Tom Cruise

I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can. — Warren Spector

Success is only personal satisfaction.
Its secret is not the ability to fit into the mold, but the mental capacity to break out of it. — Linda Jenkinson

If anyone tells you prayer never works...don't believe it.
It most certainly always does...when you truly believe it — Timothy Pina

Sometime in my ministry, I am going to gather up enough courage to have a testimony time where the only thing we'll share is our failures. — Charles R. Swindoll

Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said:
'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium. — Javier Cercas

Wendre had appealed to Horn as no woman ever had. She had a man's mind and a woman's heart. She was self-reliant, proud, courageous. She grasped the situation quickly, accepted the odds, and did what had to be done without complaining. This was no spoiled child of empire, no sheltered darling of an all-powerful father; this was a woman fit to stand and fight beside any barbarian from the restless marches, made for love and ready to battle for it. — Jack Williamson

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. — Elliott Abrams

The proper use of language, for me personally, is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words. — Italo Calvino

The best way to predict your future is to create it — Peter F. Drucker

Drinking people are loud people. This is lost
on children, who make monkey bars of noise,
climbing through and over its steel pipes
until they king the metal smell of mountain. — Ken Craft

the English drinking their 'alf and 'alf out of pewter mugs, the French drinking their claret out of very thin glasses, while our Russian shipmates and ourselves drank something harder out of thick glasses which were very small at the bottom. — Charles Erskine