"One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet."

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Source : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

#Country Quotes #Fate Quotes #People Quotes

“Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.”
“A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.”
“Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.”
“The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.”

Source : "USSR Information Bulletin", (p. 322), 1942.
“America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.”
“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.”

Source : Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.
“You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this.”
“We all live best in our imaginations.”

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