Luisa Valenzuela Quotes

#1. Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

Robert Benchley

#2. In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him.

Luisa Valenzuela

#3. Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.

Tim O'Brien

#4. Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#5. The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.

Marta Andreasen

#7. Most people are taught from an early age on, to conceive of themselves as losers. They are taught that there are a very special few who are eminently successful in life.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

Iris Murdoch

#9. Chapter 11 Bobby Bell

David Spada

#10. I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

Waris Dirie

#11. SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

John C. Maxwell

#12. I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

Luisa Valenzuela

#13. Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

Simone De Beauvoir

#14. In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.

Luisa Valenzuela

#15. I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

Luisa Valenzuela

#16. I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

Bela Lugosi

#17. Because fear called her by her name. (Her own name, not fear's name. Fear doesn't have a name; it's just the steady beat underneath a smile.)

Luisa Valenzuela

#18. One cannot have a future if he does not serve God, the one and only God

Sunday Adelaja

#19. You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

Zora Neale Hurston