Marialejandra Chaban Quotes

#1. Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.

Marion Dane Bauer

#2. 'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. There is a tale ... It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

Cameron Dokey

#4. Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Ronald Reagan

#5. Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

John Brunner

#6. In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.

George Washington

#7. We know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.

Allen Tate

#8. I won't give up on the one person who truly makes me feel like a superhero. You make me feel like I can leap tall buildings, like I can take on anything that life throws my way. I feel invincible as long as you're by my side.

Beth Michele

#9. Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

Juliette Lewis

#10. The national defense must be provided for as well as the support of Government; but both should be accomplished as much as possible by immediate taxes, and as little as possible by loans.

John Adams

#11. Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.

Rachel Caine

#12. Instantly, there had been cries of protest from the industrial archaeologists, outraged at such vandalism, and from the naturalists, who pointed out that the penguins simply loved the abandoned pipeline.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. They're your family, and now they're my family, too. I'm not a civilian and I didn't fall in love with a stockbroker. I fell in love with a Devil's Jack. I know what it means to wear a cut.

Joanna Wylde

#14. Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

Barbara Deming