La Bestia Quotes

Why did you come to the United States? Perhaps no one knows the real answer. I know that migrants, when they are still on their way here, learn the Immigrant's Prayer. A friend who had been aboard La Bestia for a few days, working on a documentary, read it to me once. I didn't learn the entire thing, but I remember these lines: 'Partir es morir un poco / Llegar nunca es llegar' - 'To leave is to die a little / To arrive is never to arrive. ~ Valeria Luiselli

People were leaping off La Bestia and running as if chased by demons spilling from hell. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Melquis and Edith jump together; I could tell Solyapa was still in front of me. I let go more out of reflex than plan, and regretted it that instant, thinking that perhaps I should have helped Solyapa first. No matter, I was surprised by the jerky scrape of dirt against my flesh as it tugged and wrestled against me as I kept moving forward despite being on the ground. The dirt itself was surprisingly hot; there was red in my eyes, nothing was clear; I felt a pain over the front of my head and my right eye was throbbing. ~ -Milan Sime Martinic, Ironway: Watching Over Benjamin Hill -

A new adaptation of Jane Eyre came out every year, and every year it was exactly the same. An unknown actress would play Jane, and she was usually prettier than she should have been. A very handsome, very brooding, very 'ooh-la-la' man would play Rochester, and Judi Dench would play everyone else. ~ Catherine Lowell

Thank god for Vegas. Seriously.
A lobotomy wasn't as effective as a weekend three hours of Red Bull away (from LA, not Pismo) where I wore the thinnest pinned stilettos, gambled like a sweaty degenerate mobster in black loafers, drank like Amy Winehouse and Charles Bukowski's baby, and snorted throat-dripping lines of coke in a Hard Rock Hotel bathroom with four new best friends. I'd giddily rub off any one of those from the to-do list I wrote in eyeliner on my hotel bathroom mirror. ~ Christy Heron

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
[Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie). ~ Jean De La Fontaine

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings. ~ Tony La Russa

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic. ~ Amber Heard

I feel amazing, in my life right now, I have so much motivation. I am so hungry and so determined. I am young, I am healthy and I feel great ... 42 is the new 32. ~ Oscar De La Hoya

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions! ~ Jean De La Bruyere

To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. ~ Oscar De La Renta

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money. ~ Tommy Bolin

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. ~ Scott Westerfeld

If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours.
-Oliver ~ Melissa De La Cruz

I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have. ~ Tony La Russa

Embrace paradox. Look for patterns.
Beethoven holds the key but doesn't know it yet.
Hiding inside your Shangri-La you might find the Gates of Hell ~ Mark Frost

A father from New Zealand, Harry Parke of Cambridge, told a group of fathers, "My wife and I figured that by nursing our first son, Christopher, we saved considerably in the first year by not using formula, sterilizers, early solids, electricity, birth control means, etc. Raewyn immediately decided that the money saved was to be a deposit on a freezer, and now it stands in the hall. ~ La Leche League International

But I saw your aura looking healthy again, then looking sick after a hunt. And you keep getting migraines. You should take better care of yourself," he added mildly. "Look for ways to not be so tense – long walks, meditation, these things would help."

Alex suddenly felt like Seb was his therapist; he had to resist the urge to shake him. ~ L.A. Weatherly

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do? ... I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die. ~ Juana Ines De La Cruz

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In giving us his Son, his only and definitive word, God spoke everything to us at once in this sole word, and he has no more to say. ~ Juan De La Cruz

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us. ~ Jami Gertz

It's not stuff you leave with. It's love. ~ Matt De La Pena

As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind. ~ Walter De La Mare

Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behavior (for they are anxious that all they do shall be esteemed and praised), they consider that they do not understand them, or that, because they do not approve of this and comply with that, their confessors are themselves not spiritual. And so they immediately desire and contrive to find some one else who will fit in with their tastes; for as a rule they desire to speak of spiritual matters with those who they think will praise and esteem what they do, and they flee, as they would from death, from those who disabuse them in order to lead them into a safe road - sometimes they even harbour ill-will against them. Presuming thus, they are wont to resolve much and accomplish very little. Sometimes they are anxious that others shall realize how spiritual and devout they are, to which end they occasionally give outward evidence thereof in movements, sighs and other ceremonies; and at times they are apt to fall into certain ecstasies, in public rather than in secret, wherein the devil aids them, and they are pleased that this should be noticed, and are often eager that it should be noticed more. ~ Juan De La Cruz

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

La cuestion esta en decidirse en algo, alguna vez.

The gist is in deciding on something, at some time. ~ Marta Traba

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer la guerre) ~ Charles De Leusse

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Our enemies are nearer the truth in their opinion of us than we are ourselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Love is the inclination, strength, and power for the soul in making its way to God, for love unites it with God. The more degrees of love it has, the more deeply it enters into God and centers itself in him. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about 'La Traviata' by the time I was eight. ~ Ezra Miller

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