Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • Me

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Congress
  • Corruption
  • Mine

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

  

  Gary North
  • Law
  • Jesus
  • Biblical

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Forever

• I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Money
  • Business
  • Value

• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Good Men

• A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Special
  • Fact
  • Elements

• I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • School
  • Together
  • Support

• Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Debt

• When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.

  

  Bonnie Friedman
  • Successful
  • Writers
  • Believing

• The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.

  

  David Farr
  • Heart
  • Fun

• High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Heart
  • Winning
  • Painting

• Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Summer
  • Comforting

• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

  

  Matthew Arnold

• She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Heart
  • Curiosity
  • Guided