Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla quotes

“Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.”
-- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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“Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.”
-- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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“Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

“Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

“Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.”

“Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.”

“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”

“Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.”

“Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?”

“But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.110, Penguin

“When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.”

“An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.”