Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes

Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding

Nicolas Gomez Davila

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

Patrick Macnee
- Up
- Time
- Best
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Quintilian
- Parents
- Alone
- Educated
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

Salman Rushdie
- Book
- Sometimes
- Finish
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Barack Obama
- Friends
- Black
- Rock
I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

Dan O'Brien
- Love
- Forget
- Ability
When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

Adam Cohen
- People
- Long
- May