#fat

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is. ↗

I was always handsome under all the fat. ↗

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. ↗

— Miguel Indurain

#always #bad #bad weather #calm #farmer

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#even #fatherland #havana #i #i do

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#best #best time #conscience #degeneration #escape

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#death #defies #down #duty #fate

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. ↗