Ignacio > Ignacio's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It takes two to make an accident.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Over everything—up through the wreckage of the city, in gutters, along the riverbanks, tangled among tiles and tin roofing, climbing on charred tree trunks—was a blanket of fresh, vivid, lush, optimistic green; the verdancy rose even from the foundations of ruined houses. Weeds already hid the ashes, and wild flowers were in bloom among the city’s bones. The bomb had not only left the underground organs of the plants intact; it had stimulated them.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“He was the only person making his way into the city; he met hundreds and hundreds who were fleeing, and every one of them seemed to be hurt in some way. The eyebrows of some were burned off and skin hung from their faces and hands. Others, because of pain, held their arms up as if carrying something in both hands. Some were vomiting as they walked. Many were naked or in shreds of clothing. On some undressed bodies, the burns had made patterns—of undershirt straps and suspenders and, on the skin of some women (since white repelled the heat from the bomb and dark clothes absorbed it and conducted it to the skin), the shapes of flowers they had had on their kimonos. Many, although injured themselves, supported relatives who were worse off. Almost all had their heads bowed, looked straight ahead, were silent, and showed no expression whatsoever.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“...their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha

“No hay libro tan malo [...] que no tenga algo bueno.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de La Mancha, Vol. 2

“mucha diferencia hay de las obras que se hacen por amor a las que se hacen por agradecimiento.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha: Edición de Francisco Rico

“Sola una cosa tiene mala el sueño, según he oído decir, y es que se parece a la muerte, pues de un dormido a un muerto hay muy poca diferencia.[7]”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha: Edición de Francisco Rico

“»Si alguna mujer hermosa viniere a pedirte justicia, quita los ojos de sus lágrimas y tus oídos de sus gemidos, y considera de espacio la sustancia de lo que pide, si no quieres que se anegue tu razón en su llanto y tu bondad en sus suspiros.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha: Edición de Francisco Rico

“»No comas ajos ni cebollas, porque no saquen por el olor tu villanería.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha: Edición de Francisco Rico

“»Sea moderado tu sueño, que el que no madruga con el sol, no goza del día; y advierte, ¡oh Sancho!, que la diligencia es madre de la buena ventura, y la pereza, su contraria, jamás llegó al término que pide un buen deseo.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha: Edición de Francisco Rico

“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote

“Señor caballero, los caballeros andantes han de acometer las aventuras que prometen esperanza de salir bien dellas, y no aquellas que de en todo la quitan; porque la valentía que entra en la jurisdicción de la temeridad, más tiene de locura que de fortaleza.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Savedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha

“...que el amor, según yo he oído decir, mira con antojos que hacen parecer oro al cobre, a la pobreza riqueza, y a las lagañas perlas.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Savedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha

“No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de La Mancha

“Primeramente, ¡oh hijo!, has de temer a Dios, porque en el temerle está la sabiduría, y siendo sabio no podrás errar en nada. Lo segundo, has de poner los ojos en quien eres, procurando conocerte a ti mismo, que es el más difícil conocimiento que puede imaginarse. Del conocerte saldrá el no hincharte”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha (F. COLECCION)

“y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el celebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Llenósele”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote

“...la música compone los ánimos descompuestos y alivia los trabajos que nacen del espíritu.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra