Juan Quotes

Juan Quote of the day

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

CeNation. Wwe reports that last night at approximatley 9pm est. It terminated its contract with cousin of john cena, juan. The wwe wishes juan the best of luck in his future endeavors.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.

We're (Juan Gonzalez) like brothers. I'm sure he was very happy to see me get it done, and it's not very long from his day, so hopefully I'll see that and we'll be on the same team.

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.

We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.

The deeper side of the study occurs on levels of attention your mind is not aware of, but that your superconscious mind is - what don Juan calls the nagual.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

There is no born lover, There is no born Don Juan, For we are all lovers.

All who joy would winMust share it -- Happiness was born a twin.

Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.