#span

Me parece que de nada vale correr si siempre ha de irse por el mismo camino, cerrado, de nuestra personalidad. Unos seres nacen para vivir, otros para trabajar, y otros para mirar la vida. Yo tenia un pequeño y ruin papel de espectadora. Imposible salirme de él. Imposible libertarme. Una tremenda congoje fue para mí lo único real en aquellos momentos. ↗

— Carmen Laforet

#coming-of-age #existentialism #laforet #nada #spanish-civil-war

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#explosive #fear #hope #life #life span

The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#away #i #longer #music #power

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#bishops #church #dimension #existed #forty

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#consider #even #family #french #i

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#attention span #bad #bad habit #first #first of all

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#american #authorizing #before #decree #enslavement

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#drafted #elected #elections #government #iraqi

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories. ↗

— Said Musa

#continental #cooperation #countries #dutch #english

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#cultures #different #different cultures #had #i