Raul Quotes

An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

Discipline transforms the gifted to the great. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

I get along with Democrats really well, and I think that's something that's unreported. I think it's partly my libertarian tendencies. — Raul Labrador

Ye've done that afore."
Raul spat. "I've done most things before. And some of them twice. And three times a night with your sister. — Robert Lyndon

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq. — Raul Grijalva

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met. — Emanuel Cleaver

The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling. — Raul Ruiz

The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City. — Raul Castro

I'm hungry, Raul," she said from the head of the stairs. "Want to go down and see what this old ship's galley can whomp up for lunch? — Dan Simmons

I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving. — Raul Ruiz

I love working with kids; I find hope in them. — Raul Castillo

Sometimes we used to eat once a day ... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter. — Raul Julia

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador. — Raul Julia

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can. — Raul Julia

At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual, — Raul Hilberg

I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so. — Raul Ruiz

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba. — Raul Julia

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required. — Raul Castro

Republicans have come up to me to say, 'Hey listen. My knee hurts. What do you think I should do?' I'll give them my recommendations. — Raul Ruiz

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it. — Raul Julia

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class. — Raul Castro

Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war. — Ray Hudson

what ever the cause or purpose of the break-up, heartbreak is always difficult to handle. — Raul Castell

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca

The most biased people are the Democrats. — Raul Labrador

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one. — Raul Julia

A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
my own work, could be attributed to testimonies. — Raul Hilberg

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once. — Raul Lopez

I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible. — Raul Labrador

I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws. — Raul Labrador

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses. — Raul Castro

we know Oswald did it because he bought a coke instead of a dr. pepper. — Raul Casso

If you want breakfast in bed, you have to concider sleeping in the kitchen> — Foster "Raul" Mkhabele

I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy. — Raul Castillo

In Cuba there are no drugs nor will there be. — Raul Castro

If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress. — Raul Ruiz

Thank God for the theater. — Raul Julia

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it. — Raul Labrador

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane. — Rio Ferdinand

I'm an ER doctor, period. I look at a problem with a certain lens: very action-oriented, very results-oriented. — Raul Ruiz

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. — Jose Raul Capablanca

To Lilo, Suleika, Constance, and Raul, thank you for coming up with some really good character names when I was in a pinch. — Kayti Nika Raet

She might be," Raul interjects. "We're still not sure if she's the one. — E.M. Knight

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one. — Raul Julia

I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia. — Demian Bichir

If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

I am convinced I was once a tree, this is why I love them so. — Raul Brandao

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight — Jose Raul Capablanca

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician. — Raul Ruiz

I hope Mr. Obama has success. — Raul Castro

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society. — Raul Grijalva

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want? — Raul Grijalva

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role. — Raul Julia

Fear-addled minds swarm around conspiracies like flies around something foul. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war. — Raul Castro

I do think vulnerability is a virtue. — Raul Castillo

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. — Elliott Abrams

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it. — Raul Castro

The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding. — Raul Hilberg

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever. — Raul Castro

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet! — Jose Raul Capablanca

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico. — Raul Labrador

I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing. — Luis Figo

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Hyperbole is the common currency of political debate. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything. — Raul Seixas

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters. — Jose Raul Capablanca

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero. — Raul Garcia

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca

You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money — Foster "Raul" Mkhabele

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other. — Jose Raul Capablanca

I'm 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe it's not just a hunting right. It's a right for everyone to carry their weapons. — Raul Labrador

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation. — Raul Julia

To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank. — Jose Raul Capablanca

I don't get to be edgy and angry, but the rewards are that I'm generally quite happy with my day. I spend an awful lot of time in a good mood. — Raul Esparza

A good player is always lucky. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage. — Raul Julia

Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist. — Raul Soldi

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. — Jose Raul Capablanca

While I live with my family in South Florida, I enjoy visiting New York and always appreciate seeing so many Univision fans. — Raul De Molina

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca

The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving. — Victoria J. Barnett