"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."

-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Country Quotes #Spain Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.”
“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture”
“The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.”
“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

Source : Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.
“These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.”
“Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.”

Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2011). “The Dreams”, p.260, Anchor
“I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.”
“God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.”

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