Sandra Cisneros Quotes
The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
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A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
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The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.
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The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.
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People don't really recognize me often. I think I just look different in person or something. I'm also not very approachable, and maybe they're just like 'Ooohhh, she's scary!'
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I am fearless when I think I'm alone.
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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
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Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.
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The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.
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I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
