Mario Benedetti Quotes

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

Mario Benedetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: uruguayan
  • Birth: September 14, 1920 - May 17, 2009

Topics

ChangePeopleWritingSituationKnow

Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.

Jim Nabors

LifeFamilyStruggleFarmingAlabama

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Jim Davis

GoodMorningGood MorningTerms

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

Shinzo Abe

HopeDayPromisesBelieveEnd

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

Travis Fimmel

WorkYouSometimesWantActorHard

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

Michel Hazanavicius

BelieveStoryThinkYouWillTell

People really feel like music is free but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap, and it's good water. But they're OK paying for it.

Jay-Z

GoodMusicWaterPeopleFreeYou

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

Don Winslow

LawViolenceYouSomethingDeal

Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour.

Sharan Burrow

GrowthDriveFinancialYouGenuine

The music business inspires designers, and designers inspire the music business.

Tina Knowles

BusinessMusicInspireMusic Business

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Marilyn Monroe

HappyBe HappyGayI CanKnowNever

Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

Julian Baggini

SimpleBe DifferentYouComplaining

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

AdviceShortYouWhateverGive

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