Esmena Galapagos Quotes & Sayings

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous. — Manuel Puig

My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him. — Rachel Bilson

Democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in democratic politics is whether ordinary men and women can recognize that their concerns are best protected and cultivated under a regime whose actions are governed by principles of commonality, equality, and fairness, a regime in which taking part in politics becomes a way of staking out and sharing in a common life and its forms of self-fulfillment. Democracy is not about bowling together but about managing together those powers that immediately and significantly affect the lives and circumstances of others and one's self. — Sheldon S. Wolin

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember. — Hillary Clinton

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better! — Sophia Bush

I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them. — Marie Lu

A baby opens you up, is the problem. No way around it unless you want to pay someone else to have it for you. There's before and there's after. To live in your body before is one thing. To live in your body after is another. Some deal by attempting to micromanage; some go crazy; some zone right the hell on out. Or all of the above. — Elisa Albert

Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace. — Sam Owen

Those who treat God's Word (i.e., Scripture: Bible, Qur'an ..etc) as a living organism are theologically, non-believers. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real. — Frederick Lenz

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies. — Brandon Stanton