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

• I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • World
  • Reading

• 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

• The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Travel
  • Horse

• 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

• Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.

  

  Elaine A. Cannon
  • Pity

• To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • Help
  • Support

• I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Week
  • Eating
  • Projects

• The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Future
  • Small
  • Lies

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

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • Revenge