Quiara Hudes Quotes & Sayings

Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there. — Sean Penn

I am myself of a mixed background. — Quiara Alegria Hudes

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty. — Daniel Kahneman

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil ... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. — Maimonides

Blomkvist had often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin ... sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other. — Stieg Larsson

There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature. — Adam Nicolson

I love researching, I love interviewing. — Quiara Alegria Hudes

My brain is my biggest enemy - always arguing my soul into a corner. — Quiara Alegria Hudes

If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon as, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we — Thomas Paine

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research. — Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home. — Quiara Alegria Hudes

It is impossible says our distressed mind; try it, whispers admonishing us, the dream. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I love writing. It makes me so happy. — Quiara Alegria Hudes

Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy. — Frederick Lenz

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work. — Heber J. Grant

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational. — Ted Lieu

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?' — Quiara Alegria Hudes

Hello, Doctor. It's your man. — J.R. Ward

I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it. — Kylie Minogue