Ugarte Quotes & Sayings

The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded. — Bruno Stagno Ugarte

I am an iceberg drifting towards the edge of the map — Laurie Halse Anderson

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about? — Emma Thompson

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience. — Fred D'Aguiar

And David and Goliath I have done before, but this time there is a difference. David holds the head at arm's length and looks disgusted. And onto Goliath's severed head, I put my own features. The head hangs in darkness so that the black hair and beard framing the face blend off into the shadows, and there are four thin ropes of dark blood trailing down into space from the neck. And in one eye of the freshly severed head, there is still the faint glimmer of life.
That's me and that's the last painting I ever did.
Spectator, viewer, audience, however you care to call yourself; I address you here, with this, my final picture.
Cast a cold eye on it all, and on my work. I am still alive. — Christopher Peachment

I told them I wasn't crying. I told them my eyes were watering from all the marker fumes. And they seem to believe me. Too bad the only person I didn't seem able to fool anymore was myself. — Meg Cabot

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation. — Robert Redford

I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials. — Steve Ells

We all draw different lines. Sometimes they intersect. Sometimes they don't. We agree on forms of evil, but judge degrees of it, saying only the worst of humanity is truly bad. And everything along the grey lines is subject to opinion. — Mike Wech

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude. — Joseph Addison

Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them? — Ally Condie

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would. — Julius J. Epstein

My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie. — Cristela Alonzo