Ernesto Cardenal Quotes

All human eyes have longing in them.

Ernesto Cardenal

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• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Baby
  • Dreams
  • Version

• When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Kind

• God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Love
  • Made

• You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Mind
  • Fighting
  • Concentration

• Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

  

  Plato
  • Duty
  • Triumph
  • Ranks

• I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.

  

  will.i.am
  • Colour
  • East

• Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

  

  William Odom
  • Countries
  • Admiration
  • Realities

• Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Life
  • Writer
  • Retrospect

• I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Success
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

  

  William Blake
  • Nature
  • Imagination
  • Outline

• If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Pain

• Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Knowledge
  • Pleasures
  • Monk`s

• I tried to represent the collapse of the Japanese family system through showing children growing up.

  

  Yasujirō Ozu
  • Children
  • Family
  • Japan

• I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If you're sure of your moral code, your moral code is personal. Something that I admire about my TV character is being unapologetic and knowing who she is. That was empowering to play.

  

  Riley Keough
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Empowering

• I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Law
  • Math
  • Computer science

• I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Family
  • Impression
  • Grew Up

• For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Wonder
  • Vision
  • Human Eye

• All human eyes have longing in them.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Longing
  • Human Eye