Antonio Machado Quotes

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

Antonio Machado

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• Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Power

• I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Determined
  • Make It Happen

• You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Influence
  • Natural

• Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Incidents
  • Be Reduced
  • Be Brought

• Walls turned sideways are bridges.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Bridges
  • Walls
  • Sideways

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Great
  • Help

• There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • School
  • Actor
  • Vampire

• Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

  

  Lady Hester Stanhope
  • Nature

• The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Important
  • Communication
  • Message

• Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Survival

• I'd love to design a school.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • School
  • Love
  • Design

• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  

  Penelope Leach
  • Children
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• America has lost a great president and a great, kind and gentle man.

  

  Jane Wyman
  • America
  • President
  • Gentleman

• The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

  

  Periander
  • Practice
  • Everything
  • Saying

• When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Enjoy
  • Regret
  • Appreciate

• The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.

  

  William Allingham
  • Mother
  • Kissing
  • Sweetest

• Love is being accepting of all of their flaws.

  

  Haley Pullos
  • Love
  • Flaws

• The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Absence
  • Virtues
  • Sum