Quotes by Venezuelan Authors

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.
Simon Bolivar
All right, I'll wait another two thousand years to make jokes about my evilness.
Tui T. Sutherland
In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don’t force it. You just don’t force love, you don’t force falling in love, you don’t force being in love – you just become. I don’t know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.
Juan Pablo Galavis
You and I," I intertwined my fingers with his, "are one.""Until the day I die," he promised, "And even after that.""For the eternity?" I whispered on his lips."Evermore.
Ariana Godoy
There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the fo
Tui T. Sutherland
You're not nothing.
Tui T. Sutherland
How did you know they were there?" Glory asked. "Oh wait, I forgot, NightWings are all-knowing, all-seeing and all-brilliant, right?" "Don't forget al-wonderful and all-brilliant.
Tui T. Sutherland
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
Hugo Chávez
I really think I'd be better at, like, advanced napping techniques.
Tui T. Sutherland
If you wait until the next upgrade, you will never upgrade.
Wilson Alvarez
A night of full moon is favourable to tales of apparitions.
Rómulo Gallegos
We all make mistakes. It is in our human nature. It just happens, it's nature's way to keep life interesting.
Ariana Godoy
Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction
Simon Bolivar
The Earth Turned to Bring us Closerby: Eugenio MontejoThe earth turned to bring us closerit turned on itself and within usuntil it finally brought us together in this dreamas written in the Symposium.Nights passed by, snowfalls and solsticestime passed in minutes and millennia.An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveharrived in Nebraska.A rooster was singing some distance from the world,in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.The earth was spinning with its musiccarrying us on board;it didn't stop turning a single momentas if so much love,so much that is beautifulwas only an adagio written long agoin the Symposium's score.
Eugenio Montejo
Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head.
Henry Mosquera
I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.
Henry Mosquera
This is the Rock, sweetheart,” the owner added. “There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.
Henry Mosquera
There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.
Henry Mosquera
The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Henry Mosquera
May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!
Henry Mosquera
It's only crazy if we fail.
Henry Mosquera
Feelings are not controllable," I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emotions you cannot control no matter how bad you try.
Ariana Godoy
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
Jason Silva
You know that you’re truly successful when you can afford to fail.
Henry Mosquera
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.
Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.
Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
You're the one taking all the romance out of this," he said. "It's supposed to go, 'that was so brave, how you stood up for your sister like that!' 'Oh, that, what, no, it's what any dragon would do.' 'No, no - you're special. I can tell.' 'Not as special as you. There's a magic about you I've never found in any other dragon!' 'Why - why do I feel as though I've known you forever?' 'Because you have...and you will.' Fireworks! True love and happiness for the rest of our lives!
Tui T. Sutherland
Smile in front of the queen?" she said with a feigned gasp of disapproval. 'Surely that's not allowed!
Tui T. Sutherland
The reason can make as much damage as passion.
Alberto Ferreras
Power has a social function.
Moisés Naím
Listen" Darkstalker said, "I could see the future, but not just any future- all the possible futures. Do you understand what that means? I could have guided the tribe along the best path, to safety and glory and power and everything else. At each crossroad, I would have known the right thing to do. I loved my tribe Moonwatcher. i would have been the best ruler they'd ever had. I know it; I saw the futures where I was king, benevolent and beloved, married to Clearsight with six little dragonets of our own. Those were possible. They could have happened, if anyone had faith in me.
Tui T. Sutherland
The following is a fictionalized and utterly false account of the events that most definitely did not happen on June 9-10, 1967. And yet, while all the characters in this story are little green men and women running around inside my head, the events that served as inspiration, the historical facts, as it were, must be considered no less than a sibling of the tale contained in these pages: the story I didn't write, but could have written--the book this could have been, but isn't.
Montague Kobbé
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.
Hugo Chávez
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls -- that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.
Teresa de la Parra
Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.
Moisés Naím
Established politicians are also bumping into a new cast of characters within corridors of legislative power. In 2010 parliamentary elections in Brazil, for example, the candidate who won the most votes anywhere in the country (and the second-most-voted congressman in the country's history) was a clown - an actual clown who went by the name of Tiririca and wore his clown costume while he campaigned. His platform was as anti-politician as it gets. "I don't know what a representative in congress does," he told voters in YouTube video that attracted millions of voters, "but if you send me there I will tell you". He also explained that his goal was "to help needy people in this country, but especially my family".
Moisés Naím
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.
Edgar Ramirez
The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.
Teresa de la Parra
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
Hugo Chávez
Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.
Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it’ll teach you its rhythm.
Henry Mosquera
Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you thatyou don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.The same should apply to ballsy remarks.
Henry Mosquera
I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.
Henry Mosquera
People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.
Henry Mosquera
I think all artists struggle to represent the geometryof life in their own way, just like writers deal witharchetypes. There are only so many stories that you cantell, but an infinite number of storytellers.
Henry Mosquera
Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.
Henry Mosquera
Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
Simon Bolivar
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
Simon Bolivar