Kelena Palencia Quotes

#1. Sometimes people would feign friendship for as long as it suited them. However resentment built, like dry kindling, stacked around a fire - waiting for the spark to ignite it.

Martyn Stanley

#2. One of the lessons of Vietnam, which we failed to heed in the Iraq war and the Afghanistan surge, is that before you commit U.S. military forces to aid or assist, it is essential to know what you want them to achieve.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#3. She looks at me. She does. She.

Patrick Ness

#4. God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

Ronaldinho

#5. It is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview mirror, I blend into Time.

Charles Bukowski

#6. The oppressed must cry out to God.
The oppressor must repent of his sins.
The liberated must give thanks.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. I remember a lecture from one of my lit classes about a theory called "Reader Response", which basically says: More often than not, it's the readers --- not the writers --- who determine what a book means.

Kelly Corrigan

#8. Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

Julia Cameron

#9. Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.

Lynn Coady

#10. I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis ... ; discovering Marxism ... was like finding a map in the forest.

Fidel Castro

#11. Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

Voltaire

#12. The natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

Mary Oliver