Carlos Alvarado Quotes

The period of strikes reflected well on Costa Rica because it showed how we can resolve these disputes peacefully and democratically.

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • Music
  • Power
  • Listening

• When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Circumstances

• In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • India
  • Explanation
  • Confusing

• When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.

  

  Gabor Szabo
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Play

• Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Serious
  • Prayer
  • Adventure

• Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

  

  Sophocles
  • Tomorrow
  • Rash
  • Reckons

• Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Revolution
  • Revelations

• Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Dead
  • Gods

• There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

  

  Anaximander
  • Worlds
  • Same Time
  • Universes

• Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Hands
  • Stupidity
  • Connected

• For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Spirit
  • Solutions
  • Resolution

• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Feel

• I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

  

  Alice Hastings Bradley
  • Alone
  • Lived
  • Masks

• Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Decision

• The period of strikes reflected well on Costa Rica because it showed how we can resolve these disputes peacefully and democratically.

  

  Carlos Alvarado
  • Resolve
  • Strikes
  • Democratically