Poniatowska Obras Quotes

#1. Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

Orison Swett Marden

#2. If it is peace you seek then you need only turn and walk away. Leave."
"To leave here is to arrive elsewhere. I cannot retreat from disorder, for it shall surely follow. Peace must be asserted where one finds oneself. Only when discord is resolved will there be peace.

Steven Erikson

#3. A tired man is already in the grip of death and insanity ... A sane man is a man who is fully awake. As he grows tired, he loses his ability to rise above dreams and delusions, and life becomes steadily more chaotic.

Colin Wilson

#4. I couldn't imagine it, living a pristine life in this big Georgian house and everything. It seemed heinous. So I left him. I thought I'd go mad, if I stayed.

Sarah Rayner

#5. That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.

Bill Walton

#6. When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.

Marnie Stern

#7. Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Hannah Arendt

#8. Nothing in the world was as beautiful to me as that tattoo, except the man bearing it.

S.C. Stephens

#9. Revolutionists amke a reform, Conservatives only conserve the reform. They never reform the reform, which is often very much wanted.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them; a Church which accompanies them on their journey ...

Pope Francis

#11. Secrets are like scars. The cut may no longer be there, but the scar's white line tells a story. Unless you share it, it's like you're hiding a part of yourself the whole world can already see. They may not know the how or the why, but they see it just the same.

Robin M. King

#12. The Greeks were more preoccupied with, where these ousted gods resided. That is: The fallen son's of God could go where humans were, but humans could not go where they were. According to Greek mythology, Tartarus was an imposed condition for bad gods
not bad humans. (page 10)

Michael Ben Zehabe

#13. Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

Natalie Goldberg

#14. It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters - only what people do tells us more about what they're like,

Stephen King

#15. I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

Gabrielle Zevin