Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning
Isabel Ramos
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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The p...
PAUL BRYANT Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards
DIOGENES This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication an...
LAKSHMI MITTAL If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. T...
PAUL BRYANT People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.
DAVID SHORE We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging ...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox ...
OS GUINNESS Are you still on Minnesota time?” I asked.
“I am on whatever time makes this call last long...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I asked,”Are you going to pick up next time I call you?”
”I did this time didn’t I?”<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Why did you even come here, Cole?”
I touched her chin. This place, this beautiful place, this...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation ...
TOM BROKAW There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to...
GEOFF MULGAN We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greates...
STEVEN MAGEE If they were so keen on meeting and joining forces with FVR [Ramos' initials], why don't they join t...
GABRIEL CLAUDIO One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
WASHINGTON IRVING One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
JOHN ROGER Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
BILL GATES Isabel felt soft and yielding; her blouse felt soft. Everything about her seemed soft, and she smell...
SUSAN WIGGS The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and ...
ALAN HANSEN Through dedication and hard work, these schools have implemented great ideas for instituting student...
BRENDA MUSILLI My parents are the greatest professionals that I have seen because they did the task of taking care ...
REKHA MENON The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards
and start suffering...
BRIAN TRACY They shared a look, and Tess felt a wave of emotion. How quickly she'd found an affinity with Isabel...
SUSAN WIGGS But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER My pulse was racing, my skin searing, and suddenly I felt light-headed. I sat back and put hands ove...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON The greatest part of learning is to unlearn the things that keep you from learning new things.
ANDONI GARCIA To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
JEREMY TAYLOR If you track the path of Isabel, that's exactly where these trees are dying.
DEAN SMITH The greatest thing in all the world is loving. The second greatest in all the world is learning.
GEORGE H. MORRISON Voicemail #1: “Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly nake...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
MICHAEL MASSER AND LINDA CREED Desire and dedication are everything!
BART STARR ...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
SARAH DESSEN Time for lunch. Take me somewhere good. Somewhere Italian."
She chose Vine, one of the cafes on...
SUSAN WIGGS Saber que era importante para alguien no implicaba que también tuviese que serlo para ti.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER How could men who liked cats be bad?
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. W...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Evil is its own undoing.
VERONICA ROSSI Todos me adoram... E quem me ama?
PEDRO BANDEIRA I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be hear...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it ha...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Don't you think...doesn't it seem sometimes like life is like a plane?...And we're all piloos, you k...
GAYLE FRIESEN Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
ZHUANGZI Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
ZHUANG ZI Cole,” I said, “do you think I’m lovable?”
“As in ‘cuddly and’?”
“As in ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.
WILLIAM LONGGOOD The world rewards you for what is in your mind, the universe rewards you for what is in your heart, ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We're excited, we're optimistic, we're hopeful. Hopefully, the rewards are going to be there. The re...
BRIAN JAFFE One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.
J.A. KONRATH Nevertheless, chimpanzees were clearly motivated to obtain rewards for themselves, but not to provid...
JOAN SILK Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.
BILLIE-JO WILLIAMS The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown.
UNKNOWN What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
LIZ VASSEY A enorme multiplicação de livros, de todos os ramos do conhecimento, é um dos maiores males de no...
EDGAR ALLAN POE People work for money but go the extra mile for praise, recognition, and rewards.
DALE CARNEGIE To help strive for zero accidents, workers are often given jackets, shirts or other rewards.
COMMISSIONER DAVID MAPLE Maria Ramos must know how to manage her people. Now we are voting with our feet. Decisions cannot ju...
ZWELINZIMA VAVI Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Divorce-by-numbers.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She'd been here long enough that all of her feelings had been replaced with high-end linoleum.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The others slithered and crawled to get her the tanks and the belt, unaware that in order to really ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sofia,” I said, lowering my sandwich from my mouth. The edge of the bread had a red mark on it fro...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Do you have it on your person?" my father asked.
"Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER My good mood felt like an endangered species.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER [...]sabía que el organismo producía tres tipos de lágrimas, cada una con su propia composición ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER con ella había aprendido que, si le quitabas el cinismo, oías una verdad hecha de cansancio y sole...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You listen to me, woman: you’re mine! I’ll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!” Hi...
SHIRLEE BUSBEE I felt a tickle on my skin; it took me a moment to realize that Cole was driving his die-cast Mustan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER whoopdie-friggin-doo, fooled you!
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Oh my God. What in—”
I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Beneath me, the bed tipped as Cole edged closer. I felt him lean over me. His breath, warm and measu...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sorry doesn’t mean anything! Not when you’re still with him. It’s not just that you cheated—...
RACHEL VINCENT You don’t want me to stand against the council. You want a magic wand, so you can walk around smac...
RACHEL VINCENT Leave them,” said Isabel. “Jamie can iron them himself. It’s very therapeutic for men to iron....
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
GEORGE FARQUHAR Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
GEORGE FARQUHAR Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. T...
MARK TWAIN That shows his dedication to the sport and love for his teammates.
DAVID SAUNDERS Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel.
SUSAN MEISSNER How was the kiss with Alex?"
"Nice," I say, thinking about how sensual it was. "Actually, Isabe...
SIMONE ELKELES Rewards are going to become more lucrative. They'll need to make their rewards beneficial and easily...
DAVID ROBERTSON Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays you...
HENRY FORD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young...
HENRY FORD Our spirits are really high, and our dedication is even higher.
CAM GRENSTINER Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inne...
ROY T. BENNETT Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who l...
TOM SEAVER The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who ...
TOM SEAVER Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
DEAN INGE
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ISABEL "If cats could talk, they'd sing as Frank Sinatra. If dogs could talk, they'd act as Chris Farley".
ISABEL The market is getting ready for re-election to go ahead.
ALBERTO RAMOS A backdrop of monetary tightening, high commodity prices, robust productivity growth and buoyant act...
ALBERTO RAMOS Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the ...
ALBERTO RAMOS You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very coz...
JORGE RAMOS The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get t...
JORGE RAMOS When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, y...
JORGE RAMOS Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts...
JORGE RAMOS We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.
JORGE RAMOS The amount accepted was lower than expected.
ALBERTO RAMOS Despite the recent pickup, total investment spending in the economy is still lower than the level of...
ALBERTO RAMOS The government continues to save a substantial part of the copper price windfall and the extraordina...
ALBERTO RAMOS The numbers show that the government is opening the faucets when it should save money or spend more ...
ALBERTO RAMOS The two experiences are completely opposed. One is textbook on what to do with a commodities windfal...
ALBERTO RAMOS Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else re...
JORGE RAMOS When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge cons...
JORGE RAMOS I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspond...
JORGE RAMOS If the family had been aware this never would have happened. Never. Never. Never.
CARIDAD RAMOS Please understand, you are not welcome here.
CARIDAD RAMOS She was an angel, and all angels wear white. It is going to move so many people.
CARIDAD RAMOS He traumatized her and made her scared. She's a victim.
CARIDAD RAMOS He paid his respects. We hope it never happens again.
CARIDAD RAMOS I don't think anybody has a permanent solution.
CARLOS RAMOS Personally, I am not satisfied. I think that was a day of democracy, if you will. Personally I reall...
CARLOS RAMOS A vote for this issue is a vote against democracy.
CARLOS RAMOS I've worked with both of them in the past and have a great deal of respect for them.
CARLOS RAMOS The winner is going to be the one who is able to garner good broad-base support. Early in the game, ...
CARLOS RAMOS It's new for everyone. But when you have a good campaign with candidates who are talking about the i...
CARLOS RAMOS This could be a defining point for Salinas. We are in a new era and this campaign will define the wa...
CARLOS RAMOS There are various communities and distinctive needs with the community.
CARLOS RAMOS There's a huge migration of eyeballs from television screens to cellphones, tablets, and laptops...
JORGE RAMOS It's unacceptable. It's immoral and it's a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars and would be far more ...
MICHAEL RAMOS Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good jou...
JORGE RAMOS Liz did a great job pitching and she didn't give up a lot of hits. (The Hawks) just put back-to-back...
TOMMY RAMOS This could break the paradigm of most investigators, who have refused to believe in any contact in t...
JOSE RAMOS I appeal to him to just come out voluntarily in terms of his status as an ex-senator and a colonel o...
FIDEL RAMOS It has stabilized a little better than the situation of July 8 and July 25, let's put it that way,
FIDEL RAMOS constitutional right to express their views.
FIDEL RAMOS We have been very consistent in our position that the labor issues be better addressed by the Intern...
FIDEL RAMOS The latest tests not only escalate the nuclear race in South Asia but more importantly divert scare ...
FIDEL RAMOS The sacrifice may be, working double time giving up a part of your elected term of office and focus...
FIDEL RAMOS This operation removes the stigma of having bonds trading in the market that reminds investors of th...
ALBERTO RAMOS The country's adherence to fiscal discipline, despite low debt levels, is commendable and reassuring...
ALBERTO RAMOS Young Latinos have been telling me that they want to register to vote because of Donald Trump. Not b...
JORGE RAMOS Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there's no question...
JORGE RAMOS I go out on publicity tours for my books, and, you know, Latinos, they bring everybody in the family...
JORGE RAMOS I was actually in the house and heard the train brakes. You just get a knot in your throat knowing s...
ROBERT RAMOS I thought I had made it. I never imagined I would be here marching.
JOSE RAMOS It was one of the best games I've seen this year. We're playing five freshmen, and our inexperience ...
JOSE RAMOS Just about everybody had multiple hits and multiple scores. We just ran into a much weaker team.
JOSE RAMOS I remember these when I was a kid.
JOSE RAMOS If you think about it, if you put $20 worth of gas in your car two or three years ago, you got a ful...
JOSE RAMOS It depends on what the state requests, but we could open 30 shelters right away.
JOSE RAMOS This is getting crazy over here. We've never had so much trouble as in the past year.
JOSE RAMOS I always tell the players to keep their neck muscles tight or firm them up so you don't strain their...
JOHNNY RAMOS There used to be a tradition within the Hispanic community that, regardless of your political party,...
JORGE RAMOS We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all...
JORGE RAMOS In that last game, (the Lady Chaps) kind of got comfortable. That's why we took Sunday off and then ...
TOMMY RAMOS If it's damp outside, there's the tendency to have that chill factor. It penetrates more. A dry cold...
JOE RAMOS Latinos are very sensitive to different accents. I sort of lost my Mexican accent, and that's what t...
JORGE RAMOS If the only way of getting to Europe was via the Middle East then, theoretically, they should have g...
JOSE RAMOS I think we pressed a little bit and we were a little anxious. I kept telling them if they stay relax...
TOMMY RAMOS Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can app...
JORGE RAMOS It is necessary to be realistic, the two are complicated but we have trimmed the difference (to Barc...
SERGIO RAMOS We have to learn from all this, be brave and go all out in the return game. It's a heavy blow and we...
SERGIO RAMOS Our season is on the line. It's in our hands and we'll only win if we leave it all on the field. We ...
SERGIO RAMOS I'll probably give half (the money) to my mom because she does everything for me. Getting the MVP is...
SERGIO RAMOS Often [our non-native Spanish-speaking listeners] are nervous about being on the air, worried that t...
JORGE RAMOS We still have a long way to go, but the commitment is there.
JORGE RAMOS Our program's emphasis is on Latin American, especially Mexican, soccer,
JORGE RAMOS When you look at a plate of food it has to be equally appealing to the ownership as to the customer,...
JORGE RAMOS The restaurant business is definitely exciting, with lots of energy that goes way beyond what's on t...
JORGE RAMOS What is surprising, ... how little attention [the memo] has received in some of the most important n...
JORGE RAMOS I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French...
JORGE RAMOS I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Wa...
JORGE RAMOS I always tell the players that is the hardest bone in their head so that avoids the injury issue. Th...
JOHNNY RAMOS Railroad tracks aren't anything to be playing with.
ROBERT RAMOS My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism bec...
JORGE RAMOS We need to help the Hispanic community feel more comfortable when they call 911.
ERICA RAMOS Just to show the judge that we're serious about, you know, tougher drunk driving laws, we also plan ...
ERICA RAMOS We're happy that he did give him the max and hopefully that sends a message to the community not to ...
ERICA RAMOS You wouldn't expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, hea...
JORGE RAMOS The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the tele...
JORGE RAMOS there have been numerous calls even at night asking the boxer for tickets, plane fares and other fav...
JOE RAMOS I thought the first game went well. We made some mistakes. When you play a good team like that when ...
TOMMY RAMOS The prospect of no election is to me, in my humble opinion a national disaster waiting to happen, bu...
FIDEL RAMOS The sacrifice may be, working double time giving up a part of your elected
term of office and ...
FIDEL RAMOS Our leaders must not only make sure that our future is enhanced but also that those who plundered th...
FIDEL RAMOS These nuclear tests are serious blows to regional security and to the global non-proliferation regim...
FIDEL RAMOS This is a manifestation that democracy in our country is very much alive, and protected by both gove...
FIDEL RAMOS But it's not that nice and easy and smooth. Everybody, specially the elected officials, has to work ...
FIDEL RAMOS Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when the...
JORGE RAMOS We don't sit on the U.S. ambassador's lap, nor do we sit on the Cuban ambassador's lap,
HENRY RAMOS We, as part of a democratic opposition movement, are not planning to kill Chavez or topple the gover...
HENRY RAMOS It doesn't matter if we have a crooked electoral council, ... We have to go out and vote.
HENRY RAMOS We felt we were victims of fraud
HENRY RAMOS Imagine what it means to us for a party like Democratic Action to say today that under these conditi...
HENRY RAMOS I just spoke with a police director and he said that officers had to beat the people back.
ISIDRO RAMOS The people ... took them out of the jail, beat them until they were unconscious and then burned them...
ISIDRO RAMOS This is the time of year when you're going to see the most rain ... because of the southwest monsoon...
MARI RAMOS The weather in Europe this time of the year and through the winter is highly influenced by the Icela...
MARI RAMOS The Balkans and the north shore of the Adriatic will be drying out slowly throughout the day and an ...
MARI RAMOS This is a very dangerous and life-threatening storm.
MARI RAMOS I keep seeing the same faces.
LISA RAMOS This is fulfilling a dream.
LISA RAMOS It's more about the music and that they'd appeal to the whole scope of Hispanics in the U.S.. After ...
KATE RAMOS It's never been done before so it was a little nerve-wracking. You've got three major stars and they...
KATE RAMOS You should break a little bit of a sweat.
JOE RAMOS The tickets have been sorted out.
JOE RAMOS Morales fights well coming off a loss and Manny should not take him lightly.
JOE RAMOS It was a total of 12 rounds and Manny lokked good against each one of them.
JOE RAMOS Manny has nothing but high regards for The Black Eyed Peas.
JOE RAMOS The group is planning to release it in the Philippines soon and after Manny's fight against Velazque...
JOE RAMOS It was a great help to have the stadium supporting the team so much. It was like a final but of cour...
JUANDE RAMOS It's been a perfect night. To win the game and reach the final and for it to be our first is a great...
JUANDE RAMOS This is an enormous prize for us. We knew it would be hard, but you don't get anywhere without fight...
JUANDE RAMOS It is true that we play in Europe every now and again and that we have to face matches in the league...
JUANDE RAMOS The boys really deserve to be in the final. Not only because of their efforts tonight, but because o...
JUANDE RAMOS The figures reflect good growth and bode well for 2006 for two reasons: international prices (for co...
JOSEPH RAMOS The maintaining of the rate reflects that there is not a dangerous core inflation pressure, while th...
JOSEPH RAMOS Investment has been very strong and consumption remains very strong.
JOSEPH RAMOS The coalition no longer needs to negotiate with the opposition, which can be a source of danger. Dif...
JOSEPH RAMOS Women represent change in a region where politicians are viewed with suspicion.
JOSEPH RAMOS But there's a yellow light for inflation, since they show unused capacity has come down. That, combi...
JOSEPH RAMOS What's pushing these figures is domestic demand, with a major contribution from investment, which me...
JOSEPH RAMOS I think they'll keep raising the rate this month and maybe every month until the end of the year.
JOSEPH RAMOS Defensively, we improved a tremendous amount over Monday's game. We just didn't get the timely hits.
JOSE RAMOS I regret that my little brother sees me like this. I don?t like the example I set for him.
RICHARD RAMOS The companies that decide to stay are expected to be extremely reluctant to make major commitments o...
ALBERTO RAMOS It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there ...
ISABEL WILKERSON I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons....
ISABEL ALLENDE I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to ...
ISABEL ALLENDE Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political backg...
ISABEL ALLENDE I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
ISABEL ALLENDE I can't control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to fo...
ISABEL ALLENDE My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
ISABEL ALLENDE I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umb...
ISABEL ALLENDE Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.
ISABEL ALLENDE Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give i...
ISABEL ALLENDE I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and ...
ISABEL ALLENDE If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in techni...
ISABEL ALLENDE What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
ISABEL ALLENDE Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
ISABEL ALLENDE For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number o...
ISABEL ALLENDE From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and...
ISABEL ALLENDE You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all t...
ISABEL GILLIES Those we hold most dear never truly leave us ... they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the com...
ISABEL NORTON I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States co...
ISABEL ALLENDE In my friend, I find a second self.
ISABEL NORTON We only have what we give.
ISABEL ALLENDE As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, som...
ISABEL ALLENDE This is just like the story of Al Capone. In the end he will be caught on tax evasion, and not becau...
ISABEL ALLENDE Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
ISABEL ALLENDE For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below ther...
ISABEL ALLENDE Write what should not be forgotten
ISABEL ALLENDE Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.
ISABEL ALLENDE one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.
ISABEL ALLENDE I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lover...
ISABEL ALLENDE This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have...
ISABEL ALLENDE It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to both...
ISABEL COLEGATE A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
ISABEL ALLENDE The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
ISABEL ALLENDE Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The f...
ISABEL ALLENDE We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. ...
ISABEL ALLENDE I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible...
ISABEL ALLENDE A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose t...
ISABEL ALLENDE I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the gr...
ISABEL ALLENDE I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in t...
ISABEL ALLENDE My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
ISABEL ALLENDE I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
ISABEL ALLENDE Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: ...
ISABEL ALLENDE I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I hav...
ISABEL ALLENDE I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zon...
ISABEL LUCAS I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! Th...
ISABEL LUCAS If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will b...
ISABEL ALLENDE We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only...
ISABEL ALLENDE America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the B...
ISABEL WILKERSON I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no lo...
ISABEL ALLENDE I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in...
ISABEL ALLENDE Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, s...
ISABEL ALLENDE On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my cou...
ISABEL ALLENDE The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological ord...
ISABEL ALLENDE The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch ...
ISABEL YOSITO In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jaco...
ISABEL GILLIES Write what should not be forgotten.
ISABEL ALLENDE I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, b...
ISABEL ALLENDE Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do n...
ISABEL ALLENDE I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.
ISABEL GILLIES We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks...
ISABEL YOSITO Mom worked with autistic children.
ISABEL LUCAS Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want...
ISABEL ALLENDE I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There&...
ISABEL LUCAS I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the ...
ISABEL YOSITO Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world...
ISABEL ALLENDE I love Athena. I love all the goddesses and the archetypes and what they represent because I think t...
ISABEL LUCAS There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the gre...
ISABEL WILKERSON Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, ...
ISABEL GILLIES As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
ISABEL PATERSON I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I love...
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