"Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America."

-- Andre Vltchek

#Latin Quotes #America Quotes #Finals Quotes

“Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.”
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”
“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”
“I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.”
“Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.”
“Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.”
“You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.”
“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.30, Hachette UK

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