Marlen Quotes

#1. Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Michael Novak

#2. And me, standing under the splintered night,
catching fractured glimpses into the black behind the black,
hearing the prayers of stars, the angry whispers of the dark summer night.

Its voice cracks,
on your name.

My eyes close,
on your name.

Marlen Komar

#3. I don't have to think. My only job is to show up and win.

Marlen Esparza

#4. I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found will know the additional joy of receiving both halves of the blessing.

Howard W. Hunter

#5. I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.

Marlen Haushofer

#6. I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.

Marlen Haushofer

#7. If no one thinks you can, then you have to.

Marlen Esparza

#8. [Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

Libby Houston

#9. We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

Thomas Beecham

#10. I look forward to continuing to be a role model to women across the country and helping them have confidence in all they do in the ring, on the court or in the game of life!

Marlen Esparza

#11. External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

Marlen Haushofer

#12. Speak to the breeze cautiously during those lonely summer nights.

Marlen Komar

#13. As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.

Marlen Esparza

#14. If you really know ... what you want and how to get there, then everything else really falls into place.

Marlen Esparza

#15. The stars, like the hollow eyes of a god forgotten, marry the sadness of the exhausted hour and inspire a little chaos, a little gentleness, to those below.

I look up at the sky and see everything I've ever lost,
waiting for me.

Marlen Komar

#16. If I look good then I feel good and if I feel good, then I'll fight good.

Marlen Esparza

#17. I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing,

Marlen Esparza

#18. The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.

Marlen Haushofer

#19. Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.

Marlen Haushofer

#20. I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.

Marlen Esparza

#21. Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.

E. Lockhart

#22. I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.

Marlen Esparza

#23. I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.

Marlen Esparza

#24. Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

Marlen Haushofer

#25. I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

Marlen Esparza