Chicanas De Oro Quotes & Sayings

The North Americans' sense of time is very special. They are short on patience. Everything must be quick, including food and sex, which the rest of the world treats ceremoniously. Gringos invented two terms that are untranslatable into most languages: "snack" and "quickie," to refer to eating standing up and loving on the run ... that, too, sometimes standing up. The most popular books are manuals: how to become a millionaire in ten easy lessons, how to lose fifteen pounds a week, how to recover from your divorce, and so on. People always go around looking for shortcuts, and ways to escape anything they consider unpleasant: ugliness, old age, weight, illness, poverty, and failure in any of its aspects. — Isabel Allende

Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel. — E. E. Cummings

A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up. — Mark Rippetoe

Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. — George Herbert

I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job, — Valeria Lukyanova

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7. — Joan Van Ark

Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
[Valor that parleys is near yielding.] — George Herbert

And just because he's dead doesn't mean I have to stop living too. — Cecelia Ahern

The difference was that all through those eight months I had been trying to substitute an alternate reel. Now I was trying only to reconstruct the collision, the collapse of the dead star. — Joan Didion

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution. — Joseph Campbell

The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point. — Jean Baudrillard