Gioconda Belli Quotes

#1. My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.

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#2. Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room - it never gets old.

Michael Graves

#3. I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

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#4. For me, the Revolution sought to end mistreatment, not to democratize it.

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#5. Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.

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#6. There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs ... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

Gertrude Stein

#7. Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

Seanan McGuire

#8. I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of reverence and wonder about my body and the powers of my sexuality not only to give life, but also to be a whole person and to enjoy pleasure. It was put to me as an almost holy act.

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#9. Sexuality surrounds us like a dangerous aura. The same reverence that is given to the spirit is not given to the flesh. We have had a sexual revolution, but the sexual revolution only has made sex more pervasive. It hasn't granted the level of reverence and respect that it should have.

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#10. A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate.

Steven Redhead

#11. And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.

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#12. The river moved so swiftly and yet it had no purpose other than to flow, just flow.

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#13. A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.

Gary Player

#14. A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

Matthew Diamond

#15. In his head he felt the confused whirling of images seeking a name. Words, sounds, surged up inside him, clean and clear, and settled on everything around him. He named, and saw what he named recognize itself.

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#16. Dare to change the world
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubborness that defies chaos and disillusionment.

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#17. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

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#18. Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

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#19. The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

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#20. We are here to enjoy the breathtaking views of life with love.

Debasish Mridha

#21. There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against the menace of U.S. and the unrestricted use of its power. Pinter's voice is an unceasing thunder.

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#22. Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk ... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

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#23. Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

Thomas Berry

#24. This is what evolution means
ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater
progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

Lyman Abbott

#25. Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.

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#26. I never thought that sex was wrong, sinful, dirty. When you take away the thought of things being dirty or forbidden, then you can really enjoy your sensuality.

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#27. Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

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#28. It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

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#29. She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

George Eliot

#30. I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

Phil Donahue

#31. In the struggle for everyone's happiness, the first happiness one found was one's own

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#32. We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.

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#33. I grew up in a very difficult country, a very oppressive situation because of the Somoza dictatorship. My family was in opposition to Somoza; Somoza was a liberal, and my family were conservatives. These were the two traditional parties in Nicaragua.

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#34. Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda

#35. L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.

Michael B. Jordan