Ana Maria Matute Quotes

#1. Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

G. E. M. Anscombe

#2. Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

Philip Sidney

#3. The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l;
the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent
the rich visual world of experience and
measurement on mere flatland?

Edward Tufte

#4. I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

Harrison Ford

#5. If one is not a meditator, howsoever good one is it is all useless.

Osho

#6. I was a very solitary, introverted child who got punished by being sent to a dark room quite frequently. But you cannot imagine how much I enjoyed myself in that room, and how I would look forward to being punished, because it was there that I discovered the light of darkness.

Ana Maria Matute

#7. It isn't ever delicate to live.

Kay Ryan

#8. Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#9. In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Claudio Hummes

#10. Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

Jonathan Franzen

#11. During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.

Richard Preston

#12. Joy is not something you look for, it is simply something you have to choose to apply.

Rene Gaudette

#13. One has to fabricate their own world, we must create the steps that will move us forward, that will pull us out of the well. Let's invent life, because it ends up becoming the truth.

Ana Maria Matute