Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

Sandra Cisneros

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• Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Magic
  • Working
  • Watching

• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Wish
  • Sin
  • I Wish

• 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

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Why
  • Want
  • Food

• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Creator

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Never

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Other

• The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

  

  Earl Butz
  • You
  • Difference
  • Worked

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Political
  • Past
  • Year

• I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Die
  • Wife

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Joy
  • Spring
  • Hold

• I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Wife

• All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Believe
  • Kind
  • Eye