FastSaying

There is somethingsomething urgentI have to say to youand you alonebut it must waitwhile I drink inthe joy of your approach,perhaps for the last time.


William Carlos Williams

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

My surface is myself.
Under which
to witness, youth is
buried. Roots?
Everybody ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I can remind Carlos all I want. But when you get out there against Cuba or whoever and start banging...
DUSTY BAKER What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be un...
JODI PICOULT The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for '...
AMIRI BARAKA Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, us...
BEN JONSON The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
JOSH BILLINGS The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust
JOSH BILLINGS The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One ...
NADIA BOULANGER Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you ...
BEN JONSON Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ Didn't you learn anything from my mistakes?" he asks.
Shit, when Alex was in the Latino Blood b...
SIMONE ELKELES From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART I must say that chimp fossils were about the last thing I would have expected to find there.
SALLY MCBREARTY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK The boy in the closet is your boyfriend. He loves you and will tell you all about last night.” “...
CAT PATRICK The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
JOSH BILLINGS It's always tough to have to say something to your team for the last time. With him, I'm not quite s...
BOB LECKIE O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it m...
RAINER MARIA RILKE You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There is no way to your personal joy if you hand over the keys to someone who is not ready to open t...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Drinking tea with a pinch of imagination!
50 WAYS TO DRINK TEA I threw away my phoneI thought that you should knowI'd throw away my homeIf I had somewhere to goAny...
ASHLEE SIMPSON It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh,' said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, 'for you must sleep, ...
L. FRANK BAUM To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN To get the full value of joy you must have someone to share it with
MARK TWAIN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to sho...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I drink to the general joy of the whole table
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN It is kind of disappointing. But it's just not possible to have it done in time. I saw (William Pitc...
ANDREW SHERWOOD What if today were going to be your last day? ...your last day to say all you wanted to say... your ...
JOEY TALLADINO Perhaps the only reason why you worry in life, tarry your goals and bury your joy is that you are st...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We are going to be looking for additional resources. The superintendent (James A. Williams) does not...
ASSUNTA VENTRESCA And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What wi...
BETTY FORD When you come home, darling, I shant have your letters, but I shall have yourself, which is more-- o...
EMILY DICKINSON Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you ha...
LOUIS L'AMOUR As soon as I got here last night (Sunday), I looked for a Laundromat. Finding time to do everything ...
MIKE AUSTIN In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say yo...
MARTIN DEMPSEY Next thing I know, Bernie Williams pulled it down the line for a double. I told Castro that's the la...
MIKE PELFREY I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Message from Archangel Jeremiel: "There is plenty of time for all that you want. Enjoy this present ...
KIMBERLY DAWN [Coming off the bench was a new experience for Williams, but he was ready for it.] The important thi...
DERON WILLIAMS Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because t...
SIMONE SCHWARZ-BART Our texts say that your body is the temple of God, and taking care of your body, whatever you eat or...
CARYN PIERCE I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Te...
TED WILLIAMS There are no other - compromise - solutions - they say perhaps we'll join by accepting terms disadva...
BORIS GRYZLOV I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer.
MARIE KONDO I have a lot of respect for His Majesty Juan Carlos. I call him Uncle Juan because he is an extraord...
MOHAMMED VI OF MOROCCO The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I a...
MARIANNE MOORE The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am ...
MARIANNE MOORE It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with s...
LLOYD ALEXANDER I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It ...
VICTOR HUGO You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desir...
CHARLES E. POPPLESTONE You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desir...
CHARLES E. POPPLESTONE Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, b...
RICK WARREN I know I'm searching for somethingSomething so undefinedThat it can only be seenBy the eyes of the b...
BILLY JOEL I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.
CHARLIE WATTS Prayer is the Christian approach to God.
TELEMA W. OKOBI Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH Christmas is the time to say "I love you"Share the joys of laughter and good cheerChristmas is the t...
BILLY SQUIER Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with you...
BIBLE I think what you have for the last two years is basically what you're going to have this year: perha...
IRWIN COHEN Scotch is my drink of choice. I love the burn, and you can take your time with it. There's no need t...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
EMINEM Giving up alcohol is an asceticism for the modern do-gooder, drinking being, like sex, a pleasure th...
LARISSA MACFARQUHAR Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, ...
BANKSY I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...
YANN MARTEL Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. You h...
RONDA ROUSEY Yes you are working hard when your coffee gets cold by the time you realize to drink it.
SAIFUL ISLAM With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in th...
CONFUCIUS With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow-I have still joy in the...
CONFUCIUS Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy tha...
ALLISON ANDERS May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I must have a drink of breakfast.
W. C. FIELDS I am your sire. I am to guide you through your first days as a vampire. Your first feeding is a rite...
MOLLY HARPER Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN I join a lot of others who say, as someone who is a first time candidate, you have to realize that w...
BILL HASLAM How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER Our last words to you, which are the words I began with: William Jefferson Clinton is not guilty of ...
CHARLES RUFF

More William Carlos Williams

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Empty pockets make empty heads.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Practical to the end,
it is the poem
of his existence
that triumphed
finally;...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS What power has love but forgiveness?
In other words
by its intervention
what has been do...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Their time past, pulled down
cracked and flung to the fire
go up in a roar

All recog...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Their story, yours and mine -- it
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS In summer, the song sings itself.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assert...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I will teach you my townspeoplehow to perform a funeralfor you have it over a troopof artists--unles...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It is summer, it is the solsticethe crowd ischeering, the crowd is laughingin detailpermanently, ser...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Some leaves hang late, some fallbefore the first frost--so goesthe tale of winter branches and old b...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Sleep!There is hunting in heaven --Sleep safe till tomorrow.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS You slapped my face
Oh but so gently I smiled
At the caress.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I have discovered that most of
the beauties of travel are due to
the strange hours we keep t...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in t...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
th...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS But we who are wisershut ourselves inon either handand no one knowswhether we think goodor evil.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS You slapped my faceOh but so gently I smiledAt the caress.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I feel the caress of my own fingerson my own neck as I place my collarand think pityinglyof the kind...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS At ten a.m. the young housewifemoves about in negligee behindthe wooden walls of her husband's house...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I have had my dream -- like others --and it has come to nothing, so thatI remain now carelesslywith ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The elm is scatteringits little loavesof sweet smellsfrom a white sky!
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It's the anarchy of povertydelights me.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the p...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Who shall say I am notthe happy genius of my household?
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS What power has love but forgiveness?
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I cannot saythat I have gone to hellfor your lovebut often found myself there in your pursuit
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It was the love of love,the love that swallows up all else,a grateful love,a love of nature, of peop...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Again I reply to the triple windsrunning chromatic fifths of derisionoutside my window:Play louder.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS You sullen pig of a manyou force me into the mudwith your stinking ash-cart!
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Well--all things turn bitter in the endwhether you choose the right orthe left wayand--dreams are no...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be d...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS When I am alone I am happy.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Say it! No ideas but in things.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Everyone in this life is defeated. But a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS In the imagination, we are from henceforth (so long as you read) locked in a fraternal embrace, the ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS This is where the difficulty lies. We are lucky when that underground current can be tapped and the ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS When I was youngerit was plain to meI must make something of myself.Older nowI walk back streetsadmi...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me,...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words tripped up, bewildered and so defeated - thrown aside ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Night is a room darkened for lovers. . . .
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Minds like beds always made up,(more stony than a shore)unwilling or unable.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS With what deep thirstwe quicken our desiresto that rank odor of a passing springtime!
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal int...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I am lonely, lonely.I was born to be lonely,I am best so!
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter t...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a c...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I wanted to write a poemthat you would understand.For what good is it to meif you can't understand i...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Nothing whips my blood like verse.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS My surface is myself.
Under which
to witness, youth is
buried. Roots?
Everybody ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS We are a half-mad race, and what we say is not to be trusted.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward wh...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a s...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS At our age the imagination
across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stan...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
WENDY CARLOS I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca...
WENDY CARLOS Composition has almost always been solitary.
WENDY CARLOS A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
WENDY CARLOS There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
CARLOS SANTANA U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the whi...
CARLOS FUENTES Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
CARLOS WALLACE We continue to be bullish on China.
CARLOS GHOSN First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bou...
CARLOS SLIM It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you ar...
CARLOS SLIM My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a co...
CARLOS SLIM We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the ...
CARLOS SLIM You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment....
CARLOS SLIM In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and...
CARLOS SLIM If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more...
CARLOS SLIM We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
CARLOS SLIM Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about the...
CARLOS SLIM There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
CARLOS SLIM When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architect...
CARLOS SLIM If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
CARLOS SLIM How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of al...
CARLOS SLIM Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sp...
CARLOS SLIM I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping other...
CARLOS SLIM At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I c...
CARLOS SLIM You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are ...
CARLOS SLIM You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technolog...
CARLOS SLIM You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
CARLOS SLIM It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give bette...
CARLOS SLIM The biggest things in life are not materials.
CARLOS SLIM The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting t...
CARLOS SANTANA You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, beca...
CARLOS SANTANA First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to...
CARLOS SANTANA Stay in your heart.
CARLOS SANTANA I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring...
CARLOS SANTANA I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
CARLOS SANTANA The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
CARLOS SANTANA I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated ...
CARLOS SANTANA My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, la...
CARLOS SANTANA There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
CARLOS SANTANA When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and ...
CARLOS SANTANA My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a ...
CARLOS SANTANA Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
CARLOS SANTANA The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an...
CARLOS SANTANA Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now...
CARLOS SANTANA I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, ...
CARLOS SANTANA Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smili...
CARLOS SANTANA Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
CARLOS SANTANA There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with ...
CARLOS SANTANA I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most day...
CARLOS PONCE Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physi...
CARLOS PONCE I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
CARLOS PONCE I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
CARLOS PONCE I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We'...
CARLOS PONCE I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
CARLOS PONCE I have reached a limit in my work.
CARLOS MESA I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia'...
CARLOS MESA My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed...
CARLOS MESA I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
CARLOS MESA I want Bolivians to support their president.
CARLOS MESA We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel commi...
CARLOS MESA Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
CARLOS MESA The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizi...
CARLOS MESA Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
CARLOS MESA There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their suc...
CARLOS GHOSN Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of product...
CARLOS GHOSN In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is no...
CARLOS GHOSN I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next ...
CARLOS GHOSN Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a prof...
CARLOS GHOSN More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going glo...
CARLOS GHOSN Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
CARLOS GHOSN Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
CARLOS GHOSN When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want...
CARLOS GHOSN I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to ...
CARLOS GHOSN Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different...
CARLOS GHOSN Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much m...
CARLOS GHOSN You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opin...
CARLOS GHOSN If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you...
CARLOS GHOSN Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
CARLOS GHOSN Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
CARLOS GHOSN The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
CARLOS GHOSN I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv...
CARLOS GHOSN Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvem...
CARLOS GHOSN You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
CARLOS GHOSN My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
CARLOS FUENTES I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on...
CARLOS FUENTES I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the write...
CARLOS FUENTES Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
CARLOS FUENTES Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al...
CARLOS FUENTES I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
CARLOS FUENTES I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t...
CARLOS FUENTES I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty...
CARLOS FUENTES The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic na...
CARLOS FUENTES What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human righ...
CARLOS FUENTES You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to dea...
CARLOS FUENTES I love having critics for breakfast.
CARLOS FUENTES The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
CARLOS FUENTES The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ...
CARLOS FUENTES I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who...
CARLOS FUENTES Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000...
CARLOS FUENTES The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo...
CARLOS FUENTES Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...
CARLOS FUENTES What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what...
CARLOS FUENTES The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac...
CARLOS FUENTES I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
CARLOS FUENTES To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a dif...
CARLOS CASTANEDA Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
CARLOS CASTANEDA The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
CARLOS CASTANEDA A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and lau...
CARLOS CASTANEDA We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe...
CARLOS CASTANEDA The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historica...
CARLOS CASTANEDA We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
CARLOS CASTANEDA Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this pat...
CARLOS CASTANEDA In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps ba...
CARLOS ALVAREZ Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.
CARLOS ALVAREZ In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer b...
CARLOS ALVAREZ If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's ...
CARLOS ALAZRAQUI I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
CARLOS ALAZRAQUI