Carlos Fuentes Quotes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Fuentes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012

Topics

ChildrenAliveWho Am ITwoComplain

When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

Andre Holland

ConfidenceLiveMeEnvironmentYou

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

OpportunityPeopleRichYearFind

As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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Anyone who knows me knows that I love football.

Tony Evans

LoveFootballMeWhoKnowsAnyone

There are so many forms of soul: David Bowie was soulful as hell; Johnny Cash was soulful as hell; you also have a Prince, a Stevie Wonder. I want to bring my perception of that and not live inside the box of, 'This is the type of tracks you get,' 'This is the type of drums you get.'

Ro James

LiveSoulPerceptionHellYouWant

'Little Night' comes from deep in my heart, and tells about the lengths people will go for love.

Luanne Rice

LoveHeartPeopleNightDeepGo

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander

LearningLookingLearnFindingMore

I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family.

Jayson Williams

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I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

Joseph Stiglitz

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I've never considered selling anything other than profession, but it's more than that. It's one of the highest callings that you can aspire to. Not everyone can do it.

Chris Gardner

YouSellingMoreNeverAnything

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

Chief Joseph

GreatMenSpiritChiefMadeWere

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

Christine McVie

LoveMoneyThinkCareBluesGot

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