Octavio Paz Quotes
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
Octavio Paz
Quotes to Explore
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
Oliver Cromwell
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
Kapil Dev
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
Rachel Sklar
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
Ursula Burns
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
Saint Patrick
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
Randi Weingarten
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
Barry Unsworth
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
Dan Simmons
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
George Mason
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Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
Lily King
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
Octavio Paz
