Sor Juana Quotes

#1. An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Octavio Paz

#2. El clavo que sobresale siempre recibe un martillazo." The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer. We

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#3. But the steep drop in violent crime presented police with a problem. If making arrests is the only way to advance in your career, but crime is dropping, what do you do? Furthermore, what to do if the only way to make a living wage is to rack up as much overtime as possible?

Matt Taibbi

#4. For me, I like to push myself ... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

Derek Hough

#5. So ... you don't like dismembering?"
"No."
"Evisceration?"
"Not so much." He laughed like he thought she was joking. "I'm a dull sorta guy."
"Yeah, kinda.

Dia Reeves

#6. In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

Wright Morris

#7. In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

Anna Wintour

#8. Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

Robert Palmer

#9. I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Max Lerner

#10. They say that people should be free to do as they like. That's what I think. But if they start preaching at me, they can go to hell.

Edward Rutherfurd

#11. For those who are with greatness born
Should live not for themselves alone.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#12. When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

Keith Ferrazzi

#13. I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#14. I describe my music as a mix of juices - Tropicana orange juice and a little bit of off-brand pineapple juice. I guess you could call it generic-brand pineapple-wave.

Mike Tucker

#15. For now, this afternoon, you saw and touched
my heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#16. Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.

Lani Guinier

#17. privation is the cause of appetite

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#18. If dual torment is to be my one condition,
both of loving and being loved I would quit.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

#19. Do what you love allows us to valorize elite workers, those who choose to overwork, and ignore those who have to overwork.

Miya Tokumitsu

#20. It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one's suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

Ian C. Esslemont