Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Reality

• A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Purpose
  • Understand
  • Say

• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Change
  • Second Amendment

• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
  • Economy
  • Bank

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • You
  • Law
  • Capitalism

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

  

  Van Jones
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Kids

• A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Born
  • Politician
  • Bachelor

• I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Love
  • Pretty

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • God
  • Years

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waiting

• Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Good
  • Children

• God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • May
  • Earth

• I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.

  

  Bobby Farrelly Boney M.
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

  

  Matt Stone
  • True
  • Happy

• No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand
  • Wise

• Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • God
  • True
  • Knowledge