Maria Quotes

Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.

Victims should come first.

How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.

After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.

No hope, is worse than fear.

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

Life is heavier than the weight of all things.

Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.

Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

May be able to die those who didn't know how to live

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.

The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.

Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.

Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

Flea stared at us, "I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, listening to his heart beat. Strong and steady. No indication that he had been sneaking around.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.

I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni