"Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force."

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Source : Victor Villaseñor “Rain of Gold”, Arte Publico Press

Victor Villasenor

#People Quotes #Jaguars Quotes #Common Quotes

“I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.”
“They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.”
“Bullying is not gonna stop, but we can at least be confident enough to stand up to it.”
“Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep going you have to renew. Wouldn't that be kind of genius? It would force you both to look at the relationship, and if it's not working, the marriage would expire so you could go on your merry way, or on the positive side of it, you could look at each other and say we really want to renew. What a way to keep it fresh!!”
“The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.”

Source : Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.
“No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.”
“A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.”
“It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.”

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