Tijuana Border Quotes & Sayings

It takes a small town to keep you humble. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone. — Maya Angelou

I like laughter around me. — Mireille Enos

Christianity voids any significance that would otherwise be attributed to a human life. It reduces all the good things you've done and all the bad things you've done to, well, nothing. All the good you've done won't matter if you don't have Jesus. All the bad you've done won't matter if you do have Jesus. In either case, what you do doesn't matter. — Michael Vito Tosto

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad. — Jimmy Wales

The border between the State of Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip had always reminded him of the line between Tijuana and greater San Diego. There, too, ragged men the color of earth waited with the mystical patience of the very poor on the pleasure of crisply uniformed, well-nourished officials. Some months before, Lucas had come down for the dawn shape-up at the checkpoint, and he had not forgotten the drawn faces in the half-light, the terrible smiles of the weak, straining to make themselves agreeable to the strong. — Robert Stone

The reason I was so at peace in that room, I think, is that in it I remembered back before time and beyond space to the day when God in his glory made us and the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. By quieting our minds and keeping still, by praying less in words perhaps than in images, maybe most of all by just letting up on ourselves and letting go, I think we can begin to put ourselves back in touch with that glory and joy we come from and begin moving out of the shadows toward something more like light. — Frederick Buechner

Prince Albert, or Bertie, as he was known in the family (his full names were Albert Frederick Arthur George), had been raised by nurses and tutors. His mother had played so little part in his upbringing that only after his nurse had suffered a nervous breakdown did she discover that the woman had not had a day off in over three years. — Theo Aronson

We're living in what used to be Mexico, and there's this very fluid border feeling. You go a little bit south of Tijuana, for instance, into Ensenada, and it still seems kind of borderlike. And you go much farther, suddenly the prices are lower, the prostitution is different, the commerce is different, everything feels more "Mexican." — William T. Vollmann

The information we need is not available. The information we want is not what we need. The information we have is not what we want. — John Peers

The world we imagine seems as real as the ones we've experienced. We suffuse the model with the emotional values of past realities. And in the thrall of that vision (call it "the plan," writ large), we go forth and take action. If things don't go according to the plan, revising such a robust model may be difficult. In an environment that has high objective hazards, the longer it takes to dislodge the imagined world in favor of the real one, the greater the risk. In nature, adaptation is important; the plan is not. It's a Zen thing. We must plan. But we must be able to let go of the plan, too. — Laurence Gonzales

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like. — Sofia Coppola

I wish people could read my thoughts instead of having to put them into words. — Tina J. Richardson

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy. — Dennis Prager

I want to be better."
"Then be better. Accept the fact that God didn't bring you this far only to abandon you. He isn't that kind of father. And you won't be either. — Sylvain Reynard

I decided that there is really some sort of entity that I call Imperial, and I decided to extend it all the way along the California-Mexico border and into Tijuana and then to the Pacific because it all has a similar feeling. — William T. Vollmann

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. — Alan W. Watts