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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Jorge Luis Borges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: argentinian
Birth: August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986

Topics

Library Not Knowing Guilty Knowing

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

School People Me High School Thought

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.

Reading Remember Important First

You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

Live Truck Night Society You Know

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

Me Succeed Everyone Impression Get

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Mother History Wife Hopeless Try

You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.

Time Yourself Step Picture Doing

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

Always Impulse Destructive Had

You don't just go to your bosses and say, 'This sucks. I'm supposed to be winning everything.' If you have an awesome idea or a story, or something great, you go, 'Hey, how about we do this,' but when the story is not you, you have to find a way to make it work.

Work Great Winning Story You Find

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

Life Hero Woman Man Suffering Self

We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn't even walk around anymore... I was really socially anxious and strange.

Walk Strange Point Where Anxious

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Challenge Down Terrorism Russia Just

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

Peter Mandelson

Fighter Quitter

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