Antonieta Contreras Quotes & Sayings

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody. — Maya Angelou

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Dealing with our negative emotions is a crucial preparatory step to taking effective action. You have to grapple with the hard stuff, with the hard realities of the world. This builds your confidence that you can handle those intense situations when they arise. — Tim DeChristopher

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time. — Jeremy Corbyn

I do my best creating on stage. — Tracy Morgan

Oddness or novelty (qualities which usually give value to anything) — Michel De Montaigne

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. — Tahir Shah

Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, 'Do you know what a poem is, Esther?'
'No, what?' I would say.
'A piece of dust.'
Then just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.'
And of course Buddy wouldn't have any answer to that, because what I said was true. People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn't sleep. — Sylvia Plath