"I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples..."

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Source : Rigoberta Menchu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1992.

Rigoberta Menchu

#Feelings Quotes #Wish Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.”
“Obviously, (winning the division) is big. To be No. 1 is always important..”
“Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.”

Source : Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.89, Ballantine Books
“This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.”
“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”

Source : "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.
“The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.”
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
“Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.”

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