Duenas Quotes & Sayings

With fire we test gold, and with gold we test women, and with women we test men. — Eyden I.

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it. — Stephen Schwartz

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. — E. Stanley Jones

Sometimes luck decides to make our decisions for us, no? — Maria Duenas

I sometimes think of people's personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. — Lindy West

In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very visible. Scientists say that all the electricity that is in your body, if put together, can be used to light a five-candle bulb. It is not much. Quantitatively it is not much, quantitatively the atom is not much, but qualitatively ... If it explodes, it has tremendous energy in it. — Rajneesh

It was a relationship that ended because it couldn't go anywhere, because it never should have begun. — Maria Duenas

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work. — Martin Mull

You know, you have a really strange way of telling me you're attracted to me. — Tahereh Mafi

Living a life filled with deprivation and working from sunrise to sunset from your earliest years isn't to anybody's taste. — Maria Duenas

But why is the Church so ready to embrace the culture of the unbelieving world? — Curtis A. Chamberlain

By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought remotely, and in hazily speculative fashion. And now, it was approaching in a manner of which none had ever dreamed. — William Hope Hodgson

Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre/niche writers, but every single one of us. — Russell T. Davies

Hunger sharpens your ingenuity, she would always conclude with a laugh. — Maria Duenas

Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning. — Maria Duenas

My day had already had a good dose of bitterness, and I preferred to keep it from getting any sadder. — Maria Duenas

When you undertake a change like that you have to do it with dreams and hopes, with illusions. To go without them is to merely run away ... — Maria Duenas

... Full of old cockatoos who used to be rich and aren't any longer, but they cling to yesterday tooth and nail, preferring to live on bread and sardines rather than sell what little they have left of their faded glory. — Maria Duenas

You'd think the man could have called her once, she thought, scowling at her boots. Sent a telegram, a damn smoke signal. — Nora Roberts

Most of the so-called illegal drugs have vastly increased in use, despite billions of dollars spent suppressing them. I believe 750,000 Americans are arrested every year for possession of cannabis. I mean that's 750, 000 lives damaged by that arrest process. It's a crazy, crazy system. It's playing into the system that the hallucinogens are grouped together with addictive drugs, which they are not. But addictive or not it's our responsibility as adults to make decisions and it's not the states' right to do that, in my opinion. — Graham Hancock

The only ones who have been silenced forever are the dead. The rest, even in the distance, still remain sons of the fatherland, keeping its memory alive and ennobling our language with their words. — Maria Duenas

He spoke with complicity, familiarly, as though he knew me; as though his soul and mine had been waiting for each other since the beginning of time. — Maria Duenas

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. — Ursula K. Le Guin

And yet for that, blood is thicker than water, even if the only thing you've shared with your people have been hardships and miseries. — Maria Duenas

And why not?" "You know why! This is a bad idea." "Perhaps I like a challenge." "Perhaps you're a glutton for punishment!" "Perhaps I am in love. — Karen Chance

One of the effects of being crazily, obsessively in love is that it dulls your senses, your capacity for perception, till you no longer notice what is happening around you. — Maria Duenas

All those invisible presences ... began to transform themselves into companions that were more or less volatile, more or less intense, companions that I'd have to learn to live with. They invaded my mind when I was alone, in the silent evenings toiling away in the workshop between patterns and bastings, when I went to bed or in the gloom of the living room ... — Maria Duenas

My fear didn't want to be left behind, so it came with me. — Maria Duenas

There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory. — Rajneesh