Adolfo Perez Esquivel quote: "Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure."

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the sil...
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL

Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injust...
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL

The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military ...
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into...
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL

There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transf...
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
LAURA ESQUIVEL

I like vibrant colors.
LAURA ESQUIVEL

I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it i...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way becau...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answer...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that t...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nati...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
LAURA ESQUIVEL

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
LAURA ESQUIVEL

As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as th...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it f...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there i...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shif...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was buil...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
LAURA ESQUIVEL

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanc...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that ene...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular f...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowe...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
LAURA ESQUIVEL

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked insi...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! Th...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
LAURA ESQUIVEL

At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave i...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like W...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; we nee...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.
LAURA ESQUIVEL

The other thing is regular hygiene, hand-washing especially. That's very important. It usually gets ...
MICHAEL ESQUIVEL

We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then ...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interes...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. ...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Todas las aves tomaron del fuegosu figura. El pensamiento también tiene su origen en el fuego. Las ...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Ponerse un huipil era toda una iniciación, al hacerlo uno repetía diariamente el viaje interior ha...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Hay muchas maneras de poner a secar una caja de cerillos húmeda, pero puede estar segura de que tie...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Lo que me dijiste no cambió mi manera de pensar y te repito que me encantaría ser el compañero de...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Como ve, todos tenemos en nuestro interior los elementos necesarios para producir fósforo. Es más,...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

Mi abuela tenía una teoría muy interesante; decía que todos nacemos con una caja de fósforos ade...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

This year's race showed that money, and lots of money, really matters. It was an unprecedented pheno...
ADOLFO JR

But I think competition is good. I am very competitive, if no one has noticed. And I think that if w...
ADOLFO JR

I don't even like to talk about this business about an ethnic and racial balancing act. I think it's...
ADOLFO JR

I would like to serve as mayor of this wonderful city. I think it's far too early to begin talking s...
ADOLFO JR

We'll be able to predict this type of events,
ADOLFO GARCIA

We can take these genes and sequence them,
ADOLFO GARCIA

In the case of these genes, we have a new target for the development of new antiviral drugs aimed at...
ADOLFO GARCIA

No individual gene is responsible alone for the high virulence,
ADOLFO GARCIA

This suggests that there are common themes responsible for the virulence of influenza viruses, ... I...
ADOLFO GARCIA

This suggests that there are common themes responsible for the virulence of influenza viruses,
ADOLFO GARCIA

They kept on coming back.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

The dribbling you describe, I don't practice that. It just comes. I do it to have fun. If it happens...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I thought I was going to be a tennis player when I was a boy. I had a coach and everything and playe...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

Memo is unbelievable, the way he is fit. I don't think I'll be playing that long, for sure. I hope I...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I was just lucky. Both teams played open polo and both teams didn't miss much. I scored five or six ...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I ...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

Cooking is not just about style or cuisine, it's about self-expression. I'm always thinking about wh...
ADOLFO MONTES

We like our neighborhood the way it is. We have our lawns clean and our homes are kept up. Why reloc...
ADOLFO VASQUEZ

We have photos of the way the store is being kept up right now and it is terrible. We will be facing...
ADOLFO VASQUEZ

We live in a nice, quiet neighborhood. With the relocation of this pharmacy, the high volume of traf...
ADOLFO VASQUEZ

The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's ...
ADOLFO SUAREZ

Our food has a global influence. It's a combination of Italian, French, Spanish and Asian, offering ...
ADOLFO MONTES

The world is very global. No one can change this world.
ADOLFO KALACH

This is the size of the mills like those in the United States.
ADOLFO KALACH

China is a very difficult competitor. This affects us, it affects everyone, but it doesn't kill ever...
ADOLFO KALACH

It was great having those guys here, but it just shows that it comes down to a team, not necessarily...
ADOLFO GREGORIO

I guess you could say it's discouraging. There are a lot of great players in this country, and it's ...
ADOLFO GREGORIO

If anything, I was excited for [Donovan, Beasley and Convey] because I played with those guys. It's ...
ADOLFO GREGORIO

I've got to come up with something new because I don't want any more yellows.
ADOLFO BAUTISTA

The win was for him. We want him to know that we support him and we're waiting for him.
ADOLFO BAUTISTA

We have to concentrate more to ensure we put away games like these. We had plenty of scoring opportu...
ADOLFO BAUTISTA

Here in Argentina, it is easy to practice and play because we have the horses, the land, the players...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I believe in enjoying the game. If you make it too much work, that's not good.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I want to finish high school, but that will be it.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I have to look after myself. I go to the gym every day; I have physio every day, I have a couple of ...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

Pressure brings out the best in me. It's the only way to keep improving: putting a bit of pressu...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only th...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

The best decisions are taken quickly and well. You can prepare yourself, have all aspects of the gam...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

Intuition is what makes the best players.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young....
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I've always helped polo to grow.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go ho...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If you...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure th...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I ...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I always want more glory. Always.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

If you have the right horses and the right team, that's the way to succeed. But you have to work...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I will never be a millionaire, and I don't want to be.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's you...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

Everybody is talking about the Triple Crown, but I want to win the Open. That is my aim.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player.
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

¡Los suspiros son aire y van al aire!
¡Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar!
Dime, mujer,...
GUSTAVO ADOLFO BéCQUER

Por una mirada un mundo;
por una sonrisa, un cielo;
por un beso…¡yo no sé
qué te...
GUSTAVO ADOLFO BéCQUER

A woman is a citizen who works for Mexico. We must not treat her differently from a man, except to h...
ADOLFO LOPEZ MATEOS

This is a very delicate situation for the country. Mexico cannot allow operations of this size.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

You are not doing the job; you are deserting us.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

The Fox revolution died in the transition.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

The soul that can speak through the eyes, can also kiss with a gaze
GUSTAV ADOLFO BECQUER

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES

I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES

For us to accomplish our goals, it will be necessary to transform our political culture, to respect ...
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

Nosotros viviremos en esa fotografía, siempre
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES

The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a ...
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

Trust comes from deeds.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the Unit...
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude ha...
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

Mexico has never been anybody's backyard.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its ...
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

I am an undiplomatic diplomat.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

The political parties have lost their loyalties.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, thos...
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of precon...
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

I believe that I have always told the truth.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international cir...
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.
ROSIE PEREZ

You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
EDDIE PEREZ

At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
EDDIE PEREZ

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
EDDIE PEREZ

My energy level has not changed.
EDDIE PEREZ

A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
EDDIE PEREZ

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you lo...
EDDIE PEREZ

My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and...
THOMAS PEREZ

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documen...
ROSIE PEREZ

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.
ROSIE PEREZ

I have to pay attention. Every three days I have to put gas in it.
ALEX PEREZ

Just getting nominated is insane. We'll find out if we're selected in April. That will be two weeks ...
ALEX PEREZ

I think it really helped to open their eyes and minds to the profession. It definitely made everythi...
ALEX PEREZ

The kids had a blast. Colin was able to give them insight about professional acting, and the student...
ALEX PEREZ

I made a few phone calls to friends, and they hooked me up. I used my professional contacts.
ALEX PEREZ

You're your own boss. No one tells you anything.
ALEX PEREZ

You don't have time to eat lunch, you work 12 hours and then the first days you just try to keep bus...
ALEX PEREZ

It's not your typical job. It pays well if you do the job right and build a client base.
ALEX PEREZ

The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my ...
ROSIE PEREZ

The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller ...
THOMAS PEREZ

I share the skepticism that my friends have about NAFTA. It was woefully weak in protecting workers ...
THOMAS PEREZ

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we...
THOMAS PEREZ

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step ou...
ROSIE PEREZ

My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition ev...
AILYN PEREZ

Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and tha...
THOMAS PEREZ

Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - o...
THOMAS PEREZ

I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter's graduation. So many peo...
THOMAS PEREZ

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I co...
ROSIE PEREZ

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed ...
THOMAS PEREZ

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following th...
THOMAS PEREZ

I'm not afraid to smile anymore.
BERNADETTE PEREZ

I showed her my mouth, which is very hard for me to do.
BERNADETTE PEREZ

What he's doing is completely changing my life.
BERNADETTE PEREZ

That was the very lowest point in my life. I just couldn't stop crying. ... My dad got his dentures ...
BERNADETTE PEREZ

That's when I went to Linda.
BERNADETTE PEREZ

It seems to me to be a reckless and foolish act that is going to be very costly.
ANDRES PEREZ

unnecessary provocation of the United States.
ANDRES PEREZ

He was recognized in the top 10 percent of the state. He was a very smart young man.
ANDRES PEREZ

Mr. Chavez has fed off the people's rage, and it is dangerous to perceive him as a vindicator rather...
ANDRES PEREZ

It would kill me. There has to be a system put in place where they can come to this country and work...
ANDRES PEREZ

We want to be open for anything. We're open to be there to help, everyone together, Hispanics and An...
ANDRES PEREZ

They were there for each other,
ANDRES PEREZ

Lori was part of our family, ... She was there for all of my graduations. Whenever my big brother ca...
ANDRES PEREZ

did not help but instead aggravated the circumstances in which Venezuela's social and political life...
ANDRES PEREZ

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.
ANDRES PEREZ

There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only busine...
THOMAS PEREZ

Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short...
THOMAS PEREZ

Our members have been following the law for 20 years now.
AUSTIN PEREZ

If anything has changed, it's that Americans are now even more reliant on U.S. farmers and ranchers ...
AUSTIN PEREZ

This provision would open up the legal system to abuse by people who may not pay taxes and would dri...
AUSTIN PEREZ

The next few days could be a productive cooling off period, when senators work out their differences...
AUSTIN PEREZ

Still, what we've seen so far indicates that we could be looking at an enforcement-only bill on the ...
AUSTIN PEREZ

You find the highest illegal immigration counties are now in the Midwest.
AUSTIN PEREZ

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. An...
THOMAS PEREZ

Kodak did two things: The one that was good was the investment in digital technology. What they didn...
ANTONIO PEREZ

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.
ANTONIO PEREZ

Can any of the classical digital guys compete with Kodak in understanding how to make ink and how to...
ANTONIO PEREZ

While we achieved our goal of restructuring to improve our cost base and competitiveness, we had to ...
ANTONIO PEREZ

[Because of uncertainty about] the economic environment of the country, ... the prudent thing to do ...
ANTONIO PEREZ

We're hoping to start demolition in January.
ANTONIO PEREZ

We continue to push hard to remove costs, complete the restructuring of our traditional assets, driv...
ANTONIO PEREZ

We are at the phase now where digital is still coming up, ... You'll start to see it next year very ...
ANTONIO PEREZ

We knew from the beginning that film was going away. It is going away faster than we thought,
ANTONIO PEREZ

Diversity and inclusion is a key business imperative for us.
ANTONIO PEREZ

In terms of intellectual property, so many of the job creators I know are start-ups. In the IP setti...
THOMAS PEREZ

Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

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