Eve Ensler Quotes

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

Eve Ensler

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Same
  • Even
  • Though

• When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Celebrity
  • Athlete
  • Gymnastics

• I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Success
  • You
  • Learned

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • American
  • Society
  • Freedom

• People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Name

• It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Learn
  • Understand

• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Great
  • Women
  • Constitution

• I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Me
  • Always
  • Characters

• I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Me

• Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Dance

• I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Done
  • Reason
  • Doing

• Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Start

• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Something
  • Convince
  • Novels

• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Hatred
  • Satisfy

• I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Books
  • Medicine
  • Doctor

• For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • College

• I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Freedom
  • Vision
  • Triumph

• It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Security
  • Guarantee
  • Inherent