Sandra Cisneros Quotes

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Sandra Cisneros

• Thinking
• Violence
• Revenge
• Clarity
• Liberation

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Own
  • Too Much
  • Admit

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Change

• Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Car

• You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

  

  Walter Payton
  • You
  • Change
  • Now

• You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Know
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• At first I didn't even realize she was pregnant. I kinda gotten used to her throwing up every time we had sex...

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the 'spiritual' sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the 'world and woman,' i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Spiritual

• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Game

• I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

  

  Jam Master Jay

• Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Political

• Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Life
  • Writing

• I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

  

  James Randi
  • Popular

• We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

  

  Jean Smart
  • Past
  • Relationship

• No matter which concern, problem or life-issue we may want to work on, risking and beginning to talk about it with a safe person or persons is a way out of the unnecessary burden of remaining silent. And when we tell our story from our hearts, bones and guts, we discover the truth about ourselves. Doing so is healing

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Truth
  • Story
  • Healing

• Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • Good
  • Church

• The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Writing
  • Revenge

• I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an American wife, and when I go back to England I feel more like an American, the way I look at the world, is more from an American perspective at this point. I've traveled every state 30 or 40 times, and have met an amazing array of people, and I have found Americans to be among the most kind and tolerant people I have ever met.

  

  Dave Wakeling
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Kids

• Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • Revenge