Top 33 Juana Ines De La Cruz Quotes
#1. The matter to me was simple:
love for you was so strong,
I could see you in my soul
and talk to you all day long.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#2. But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.
Daisy Whitney
#3. If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.
John Niven
#5. El clavo que sobresale siempre recibe un martillazo." The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer. We
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
#7. Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#8. One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#9. Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#11. I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles
#14. A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity is a function of inadequate knowledge and/or skills.
Marsha M. Linehan
#15. The greater evil who is in-
When both in wayward paths are straying?
The poor sinner for the pain
Or he who pays for the sin?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#16. Quickly look down, now you tell me, when you were little did you ever imagine that you'd be wearing those shoes? Mind blowing isn't it?
Neil Leckman
#18. In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#20. Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books.
Munia Khan
#21. I believed, when I entered this convent,
I was escaping from myself, but alas,
poor me, I brought myself with me!
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#22. I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#23. Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do? ... I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#25. God has made us study partner. We need to talk about our project.
Isaac Marion
#27. In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#30. And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#31. If the date is a complete disaster, I'll text you. I'll say 'Blue Squirrel, this is Hot Fox. Mission to be aborted with extreme prejudice.' Then you call me and you tell me that there is a terrible emergency that requires my expert warlock assistance.
Cassandra Clare
#32. Critics: In your sight
no woman can win:
keep you out, and she's too tight;
she's too loose if you get in.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#33. And it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
