Octavio Paz Quotes

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AttitudeBeginningLosingLoseIdea

What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.

John McEnroe

ChangeThinkMoreGoingLikeFeels

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

Jeb Bush

GovernmentYouSayWayDividedJust

Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.

Jean Renoir

SmellBoulevard

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Michelle Obama

HonestyJobUniverseTransitionKnow

If a fighter thinks he knows everything and stops trying to evolve, he's lost.

Jose Aldo

TryingLostFighterEverythingKnows

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

Dean Stanley

ChristianTrueWayExtraordinary

I know a lot of companies that have a very well defined post-acquisition process. However, many of them don't take into consideration the dynamics and personalities of the acquiree. Instead, they assume that everyone will happily be assimilated.

Brad Feld

ProcessKnowWillEveryoneTake

Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you'll always end up better than where you started.

Anthony Joshua

YourselfEndBetterYouGoalTry

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

Seamus Heaney

GodRealityLanguageHeavenPersonal

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Morris Raphael Cohen

GreatCreativeSympathyPresentWill

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

Mark Roberts

PeopleFreeSpiritBecomeMore

I've always had a little pooch. I just always have - that's just my body type. No matter how skinny I've been, it's always there. And now that I've had kids, I sort of don't mind as much because, you know what? What my stomach and my body went through is truly a miracle.

Kristin Cavallari

MindYouBodyKnowNowMatter

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