Alejandro Manzano Quotes & Sayings

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. — Parker J. Palmer

The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description. — Steve Maraboli

And we are so fragile,and our cracking nones make noise, and we are just breakable, breable, breakable girls — Ingrid Michaelson

If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world was just born. Clean and new and so smooth. — Toni Morrison

A strange thing happened then. The Speaker agreed with her that she had made a mistake that night, and she knew when he said the words that it was true, that his judgment was correct. And yet she felt strangely healed, as if simply saying her mistake were enough to purge some of the pain of it. For the first time, then, she caught a glimpse of what the power of speaking might be. It wasn't a matter of confession, penance, and absolution, like the priests offered. It was something else entirely. Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate. — Orson Scott Card

Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject." The — Frank Herbert

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it. — Markus Zusak

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important. — Vivian Gornick

But the only game she wanted to play was Kidnapper, where she tied me up and left me in my own tree house for about twelve hours, until Dad climbed up and got me down. Why hadn't I at least called for help? I had. But no one had heard me. Probably because of the gag in my mouth. — Douglas Rees

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good. — Adam McKay

Sprinkled afresh with pardoning blood, I lay me down to rest, As in the embraces of my God, Or on my Saviour's breast. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

(Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?) — Lauren F. Winner

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistical and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them , for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. — W. Somerset Maugham

Does your head pain you?" she asked in concern, reaching up to touch the small plaster at his temple. In all the commotion of bringing Bennett to their home, there had been no opportunity for private conversation.
He bent to brush a soft kiss on her lips. "No. With a head as hard as mine, bullets merely bounce off. — Lisa Kleypas