"In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe."

-- Isabel Allende

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.”
“I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.”
“Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.”
“I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all of us. When an artist becomes really famous, you'll start listening to songs and saying "Wait...I've heard that before" and it'll be one of theirs. We all fall into that rut. If you don't have something to force you out of it, then it's kind of a dangerous business.”
“In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.”
“Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
“I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death”
“You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.”

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