Carlos Varela Quotes

Freedom only exists when it doesn't belong to anybody.

Carlos Varela

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• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Jump

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Think
  • Responsibility
  • Push

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Dream
  • Deadline
  • Goat

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Married
  • Morality
  • Ancestors

• Humor is a part of spirituality.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Humor
  • Part
  • Spirituality

• Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

  

  Tacitus
  • Power
  • Hate
  • Next

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • Career
  • Look

• The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Democracy
  • Risk
  • Adventure

• I don't know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that's what I do.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Home
  • Everyday
  • Normal

• I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Me
  • Year
  • Lord

• Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Freedom

• If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Freedom
  • Weapons
  • Willpower

• Freedom only exists when it doesn't belong to anybody.

  

  Carlos Varela
  • Freedom
  • Belong