Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Quotes

If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Flower
  • Gardening

• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Pay
  • Beatles
  • Tribute

• I don't want to lose what I've won.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Won

• I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Always

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Down

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Interesting

• Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Obsessed
  • Close
  • Ingredients

• I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Love
  • Car

• Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Culture

• The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Joy

• It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • True

• I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • Character
  • Fun

• I never wanted to be a pop star.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Star

• I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.

  

  Jerry West
  • Time
  • Player

• I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Good
  • Dad

• Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Marriage

• Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

  

  Will Wright
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• It is so easy to take the violet flame and to use it that I am certain that once you begin you will recognize that the violet flame and the angels of the violet flame are the servants of the sons and daughters of God and the children of the Light, that the violet flame joyously serves you and acts to cleanse your entire being so that, as Jesus said, your whole body can be full of light.

  

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet
  • God
  • Light
  • Recognize

• I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.

  

  John Wesley
  • God
  • Hope
  • Fear

• If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

  

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • Peace
  • Violence
  • Break