Periodista Jorge Quotes

#1. There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#2. It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them. (From the Introduction of 1941's The Garden of Forking Paths) #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#3. When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative. #Quote by Jorge Posada

#4. Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#5. The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#6. Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons ... don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it! #Quote by Jorge Cruise

#7. The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth . #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#8. When fate and love come into conflict, the former must always win; for love will fade if it rests upon indignity or abdication. #Quote by Jorge G. Castaneda

#9. I want you to judge me without thinking about it.
I want you to give me advice without considering my opinion.
I want you to expecting anything without the need to trust me.
I want you to decide for me with all the care in the world.
I want you to help me without smothering me.
I want you to decide without seeing my point of view.
I want you to hug me without holding me...
I want you to feel protected in my presence without me having to lie.
I want you to be close without suffocating me.
I want you to know everything without knowing anything...
I want you to know that both love and friendship should always be Unconditional. #Quote by Stefan Dimov

#10. But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave ... #Quote by Umberto Eco

#11. I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands ... They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#12. The system was elementary, as you can see. Naturally these "lotteries" failed. Their moral virtue was nil. They were not directed at all of man's faculties, but only at hope. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#13. The voice of the Lord answered from a whirlwind: "Neither am I anyone; I have dreamt the world as you dreamt your work, my Shakespeare, and among the forms in my dream are you, who like myself are many and no one. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#14. I no longer believe in literary schools now; I believe in the individual. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#15. I just enjoy the ride while I have it. #Quote by Jorge Garcia

#16. Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#17. Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#18. You have wings, I have roots. #Quote by Jorge Molist

#19. My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#20. One day or one night - between my days and nights, what difference can there be? - I dreamed that there was a grain of sand on the floor of my cell. Unconcerned, I went back to sleep; I dreamed that I woke up and there were two grains of sand. Again I slept; I dreamed that now there were three. Thus the grains of sand multiplied, little by little, until they filled the cell and I was dying beneath that hemisphere of sand. I realized that I was dreaming; with a vast effort I woke myself. But waking up was useless - I was suffocated by the countless sand. Someone said to me:

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of the grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

I felt lost. The sand crushed my mouth, but I cried out: I cannot be killed by sand that I dream - nor is there any such thing as a dream within a dream.

- Jorge Luis Borges, The Writing of the God #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#21. Tennyson said that if we could understand a single flower we would know who we are and what the world is. Perhaps he meant that there is no deed, however so humble, which does not implicate universal history and the infinite concatenation of causes and effects. Perhaps he meant that the visible world is implicit, in its entirety, in each manifestation, just as, in the same way, will, according to Schopenhauer, is implicit, in its entirety, in each individual. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#22. You can always be a better person, a better version of you, focus on that you do that makes you feel good, cultivate
activities that make you feel in peace
and make them part of your daily life. #Quote by Jorge Gw

#23. Words are symbols for shared memories. If I use a word, then you should have some experience of what the word stands for. If not, the word means nothing to you. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#24. She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385) #Quote by Jorge Amado

#25. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#26. A single gram of antiparticles combined with a gram of normal particles would release more than 40 kilotonnes of explosive force, which is more than twice as powerful as the atomic bombs dropped by the United States in WWII. A normal household raisin weighs about a gram, so a raisin plus anti-raisin combination would be a dehydrated weapon of mass fruitation. #Quote by Jorge Cham

#27. Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#28. Tomorrow, in the fields of my kingdom, may you have a happy battle.
May your kingly hands be terrible in weaving the sword stuff.
May those opposing your sword become meat for the red swan.
May your many gods glut you with glory, may they glut you with blood.
Victorious may you be in the dawn, king who treads on Ireland.
Of your many days may none shine bright as tomorrow.
Because that day will be the last. I swear it to you, King Magnus.
For before its light is blotted, I shall vanquish you and blot you out, Magnus Barfod. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#29. I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#30. God moves the player, he in turn the piece.
But what god beyond God begins the round
Of dust and time and sleep and agonies? #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#31. Only in the present do things happen. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#32. The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#33. When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#34. When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#35. Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#36. It is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated. #Quote by Jorge Amado

#37. Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he kills the more people are gonna be born and grow up and go on being born and growing up and mixing, and no son-of-a-bitch is gonna stop 'em! #Quote by Jorge Amado

#38. The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#39. Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#40. Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight of stone and iron, for they know only sand and driftwood and muddy water. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#41. Love is not to be proven or measured,' said Joao Fulgencio. 'It's like Gabriela. It exists, and that is enough. The fact that you can't understand or explain something doesn't do away with it. I know nothing about the stars, but I see them in the heavens; and my ignorance in no way affects either their existence or their beauty' (376). #Quote by Jorge Amado

#42. Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time ... by peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#43. He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
the ball. I just like watching him hit. #Quote by Jorge Posada

#44. There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did. He made my job as a catcher so much easier. Mariano is a special person and obviously a special player. #Quote by Jorge Posada

#45.
,all our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know. #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#46. I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right. #Quote by Jorge Ramos

#47. In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible. #Quote by Jorge Cruise