Vel Zquez Ramos Quotes

Is happiness just bait to lure you through long life? Can happiness have longetivity? Or is it like bubble gum? You chew on it, suck all the sweetness out. Someone bursts your bubble, or you blow too big a bubble and end up with it stuck all over your face. ~ NoNieqa Ramos

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington. ~ Jorge Ramos

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be. ~ Jorge Ramos

Vel once told me that the heart isn't like a cup of water. You can't drain it. It's more like an endless well, and the more you love, the more it pumps out. ~ Ann Aguirre

For the shark, "Evil" is the fisherman's harpoon; for the tarantula, "evil" is the sting of the hunter wasp which was inflicted the day before; he lives but paralyzed, sustenance for the larvae of the wasp. For stupid men, "evil" are the men of genius that try to make them think. ~ Marcelo Ramos Motta

We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds. ~ Jose Ramos-Horta

We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes. ~ Jorge Ramos

The purpose of life is to survive,to grow,to accept and adapt changes that happens...And addition to human is to exercise his free will, to learn from experience,to make the most of his time,to live well and to reap what he sow in this life. ~ Balenti Peco Ramos

Not all failures are failures as not all successes are successes! Arise! Always, a better one will be around the next corner! When one door closes another one opens!" commanded Goddess. ~ Vel

What's on your shirt?" she asked suddenly. "Darth Vader," I answered briskly. For someone who held me in such obvious contempt, she asked a lot of questions. "So you're a Trekkie." This was a statement rather than a question. I cringed. "Not exactly." "I think Star Trek is silly." "Not ~ James Ramos

Sorry doesn't mean anything! Not when you're still with him. It's not just that you cheated - it's that he's still here, and you're still with him. It just goes on and on, and it hurts every single time I see you with him. I hate it that he makes you smile, and that there's nothing I can do to stop this. I can't think straight, and everything hurts, and nothing makes sense anymore. You're shredding my heart with one hand and stroking his ego with the other. And it's killing me, Faythe. You're killing me. And it's only going to get worse, now that everyone knows. ~ Rachel Vincent

Understanding is the first step of accepting! ~ Ey Ramos

The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on. ~ Jose Ramos-Horta

That's when I realize - he's afraid of me every bit as much as he is of Vel. We're like the wicked witch and her demon familiar or something. ~ Ann Aguirre

Ronaldinho was virtually unstoppable at his best, as a forward or a playmaker. ~ Sergio Ramos

Hillary Clinton knew she wasn't gonna be indicted for whatever she's doing with the emails. You know how I know that? Because Jorge Ramos asked her in an interview. He said, "Would you step down if you were indicted?" And her reaction was (cackling), "What? Indicted? For what? What the heck? Are you serious? Oh, my God!" She said, "Silly! Ho-ho." There was no way it was gonna happen. ~ Rush Limbaugh

If we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends. ~ Augustine Of Hippo

We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance. ~ Jose Ramos-Horta

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. ~ Jose Ramos-Horta

We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all of these things during the campaigns and then forgetting about it after the campaigns are over. ~ Jorge Ramos

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior ~ Desiderius Erasmus

Hyperbole is the common currency of political debate. ~ Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil. ~ Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

Fear-addled minds swarm around conspiracies like flies around something foul. ~ Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

A legend is someone becomes immortal by being dead. ~ Adrian Ramos

It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years. ~ Jose Ramos-Horta

Zen Buddhism, for example, as practiced by Suzuki, the excellent Japanese mystic, has nothing to do with the superstitious and predjudiced Buddhism that infested Asia for centuries. Sufism, as boasted by the subtle Gurdjeff, totally differs from the Islamism that shouts death to the "infidels." The doctrine of Vivekananda, inspired by his master Ramakrishna, is nothing like the Hinduism that suffocated India for centures of superstious and stupid passivity; the noble mysticism of Martin Buber, the Jewish philosopher, is nothing like the bloody cultural narrowness and tribal elitism of the mosaic orthodoxy. ~ Marcelo Ramos Motta

When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos. ~ William Hartung

A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson's biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It's first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing. ~ F. Sionil Jose

We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development. ~ Jose Ramos-Horta

RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend. ~ Sergio Ramos

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one. ~ Jorge Ramos

This whole thing is in my head, that's all. Everything is always IN MY HEAD. But isn't everything in your head? What does it mean for something to be out of your head? ~ NoNieqa Ramos

I believe in being compassionate, ~ Jose Ramos-Horta