Octavio Paz Quotes

The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998

Topics

EthicsLanguageRhetoricAcceptEase

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.

John Olver

OpportunityStand UpStandKnowWill

The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.

Robert J. Shiller

FutureBestYourselfWaySurprises

The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind.

Robert Laurent

PlayKindAgainstUsGiftsGive

Let's make sure that we have health care benefits that have been promised to our veterans delivered to them in the communities that they are living in.

Matt Rosendale

HealthCareLivingVeteransSure

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

John Waters

HateDayMondayFakeHolidaysYou

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Socrates

LiveManHonestPoliticianReally

About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.

Sia

LifeBirthdayLiveMusicTimeDay

When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

YouCountryMatterSocialDemocrat

If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before.

Tom Frieden

StopWellJustBeforeThoseMeasles

People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.

Claire Tomalin

PeopleYouChooseBadOffensiveWho

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

Alicia Witt

DisciplineTrainingLivingHardMake

For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film.

Pawel Pawlikowski

CharacterMeLanguageBodyWant

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