Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Personality
  • Unbalanced

• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
  • Speak
  • Speech

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • You
  • Easy

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Black

• If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • You
  • Give

• I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Mean
  • Friendship
  • Outside

• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Numbers
  • Manners
  • Morals

• If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Promise

• There is no forgiveness in nature.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Nature
  • Forgiveness

• The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Why
  • Know
  • Problem

• A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Child
  • Slavery

• For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Political
  • Black
  • Culture

• If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Justice

• Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused, and thought. 'I want everything.'

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Life
  • Football

• At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.

  

  Jam Master Jay
  • Up
  • Beginning

• While the agreement provides a level of constraint on Iran's nuclear weapons program, it confers legitimacy on their nuclear threshold status, an unprecedented shift for a country with so many entanglements.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Country

• My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

  

  John Oliver
  • Family
  • American

• In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Chinese

• Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • World
  • Done
  • Tiger

• A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Dog
  • Tiger

• He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Tiger