Porras En Quotes & Sayings

Much of the attraction of the cult has to do with the grace of an early and romantic death. George Orwell once observed that if Napoleon Bonaparte had been cut down by a musket ball as he entered Moscow, he would have been remembered as the greatest general since Alexander. And not only did Guevara die before his ideals did, he died in such a manner as to inspire something akin to superstition. He rode among the poor of the altiplano on a donkey. He repeatedly foresaw and predicted the circumstances of his own death. He was spurned and betrayed by those he claimed to set free. He was by calling a healer of the sick. The photographs of his corpse, bearded and half-naked and lacerated, make an irresistible comparison with paintings of the deposition from Calvary. There is a mystery about his last resting place. Alleged relics are in circulation. There have even been sightings ... . — Christopher Hitchens

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job. — Jacques Delors

I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out. — Nick Bantock

I feel at once the need to die and be reborn one thousand years ago. — Maggie Nelson

If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop. — Jenna Black

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations. — Victoria Woodhull

It's your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me."
"I'm outraged!" I snarled. "That bastard!"
"Thank you," Andrea said. — Ilona Andrews

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair. — Dita Von Teese

Eighty percent of showing up for life is ninety percent exaggerated. — Brian Spellman

Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's. — Woody Allen

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law. — Julian Assange

Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer? — Daniel Gilbert

I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. — Mark Driscoll

For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have washed over the landscape, from the crumbling of colonial hegemonies in mid-century to the recent collapse of Communist empires. But too often, what rushed in to replace the old order were empty hopes-not only in the false allure of state socialism, non-alignment and single-party rule, but also the false glories of romantic nationalism and narrow tribalism, and the false dawn of runaway individualism. — His Highness The Aga Khan