Gabriela Quotes & Sayings

I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them. — Gabriela Sabatini

A crippled child
Said, "How shall I dance?"
Let your heart dance
We said.
Then the invalid said:
"How shall I sing?"
Let your heart sing
We said
Then spoke the poor dead thistle,
"But I, how shall I dance?"
Let your heart fly to the wind
We said.
Then God spoke from above
"How shall I descend from the blue?"
Come dance for us here in the light
We said.
All the valley is dancing
Together under the sun,
And the heart of him who joins us not
Is turned to dust, to dust. — Gabriela Mistral

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul. — Gabriela Mistral

What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people. — Gabriela Sabatini

That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day. — Gabriela Sabatini

Sometimes life brings you the most unexpected experiences, where you learn more than you ever wanted to. — Emily Gabriela Vira

do not expect high CTRs on Facebook. Unlike Google, where the average CTR is 1%, on Facebook you can expect CTRs of 0.1%, as on Facebook ads are displayed and not searched for. — Gabriela Taylor

I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close. — Gabriela Sabatini

What's wrong?" she began quietly, her large, liquid eyes illuminated with hysteria. She laughed like a loon and said, "Where shall we begin? I'm tired. I'm sore." Her voice began lilting and rising, getting louder with every sentence. Grabbing at her chest, she shouted, "I've got a corset wrapped so tightly over my breasts that I can hardly breathe! I lost both my socks and my shoes! My hands are a pulp of lacerations!" She lifted them up before her, fingers spread, and laughed again. "I've a gash -- a throbbing, bleeding gash on the back of my scalp! And let's not forget to mention that I'm surrounded by men of the most vile, disreputable character imaginable, stuck on board a ship, in the middle of the bloody Atlantic! — Gabriela Lawson

Love is not to be proven or measured,' said Joao Fulgencio. 'It's like Gabriela. It exists, and that is enough. The fact that you can't understand or explain something doesn't do away with it. I know nothing about the stars, but I see them in the heavens; and my ignorance in no way affects either their existence or their beauty' (376). — Jorge Amado

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people, — Gabriela Mistral

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do. — Gabriela Sabatini

I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it. — Gabriela Sabatini

Tennis is a 100-mph chess match. — Gabriela Sabatini

In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night. — Gabriela Mistral

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement. — Gabriela Sabatini

Not everyone will accept you, not everyone will listen to what you have to say & not everyone will care. Does that really matter? I think not. Others may have any opinion whatsoever, but that should not influence who you are or who you want to be. — Emily Gabriela Vira

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that. — Gabriela Sabatini

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard. — Gabriela Sabatini

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing. — Gabriela Sabatini

I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials. — Gabriela Sabatini

Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice. — Emily Gabriela Vira

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court. — Gabriela Sabatini

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life. — Gabriela Sabatini

Trust is so valuable. It's sometimes hard to gain, but so easy to lose. One must always be careful about trusting another, but there are times where people are too careful or too afraid & forget how to open up to those who won't do any harm. Choose wisely who you trust, but don't worry too much. Disappointment occurs, but life goes on — Emily Gabriela Vira

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life! — Gabriela Mistral

I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There's nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers. — Jorge Amado

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket. — Gabriela Sabatini

Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools. — Gabriela Mistral

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life. — Gabriela Isler

The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much closer to that 100 than I was 5 years ago. — Gabriela M. Sanchez

My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son. — Gabriela Mistral

In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis. — Gabriela Sabatini

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing. — Gabriela Sabatini

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships. — Gabriela Sabatini

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues. — Gabriela Mistral

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe — Gabriela Mistral

Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge. — Gabriela Isler

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows. — Gabriela Mistral

be who you are , dont try to be others , their taken. so you know be brave-confident on what you think is right or wrong .make your desisions,no one tells you what to do . — Gabriela Simoes

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand. — Gabriela Mistral

There were so much affairs of me created by the media ... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star. — Gabriela Sabatini

It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it. — Gabriela Sabatini

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work. — Gabriela Sabatini

Life is like a book. It is your decision to narrate it or to live it — Gabriela Rodriguez

Dusk
I feel my heart melting
in the mildness like candles:
my veins are slow oil
and not wine,
and I feel my life fleeing
hushed and gentle like the gazelle. — Gabriela Mistral

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom. — Gabriela Mistral

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. — Gabriela Mistral

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away. — Gabriela Sabatini

What I'm doing, with my image, I have my perfumes. I've had that for almost 20 years, and I have like 14, 15 different perfumes now. — Gabriela Sabatini

I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory! — Gabriela Isler

Gabriela was in prison for Judaizing, but she recited the prayers of her tormentors. She had not even the comfort of the religion for which she was punished. — David Liss

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind. — Gabriela Sabatini

I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost. — Gabriela Mistral

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. — Gabriela Sabatini

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction. — Gabriela Sabatini

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. — Gabriela Mistral

Now my belly is as noble as my heart. — Gabriela Mistral

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Gabriela Popa

Storytelling is in our DNA. It's what differentiates humans from other species: we don't just communicate information. We tell stories. — Gabriela Pereira

I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot. — Gabriela Sabatini

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps. — Gabriela Mistral

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value. — Gabriela Sabatini

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside. — Gabriela Isler

Don't travel alone ... meet up with others who are traveling also on the path of change, you can learn from each other a lot and together carry more learning experiences (social learning and collective intelligence). -Nadia Gabriela Dresscher — Lambert Of Maastricht

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job, — Gabriela Sabatini

I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time. — Gabriela Sabatini

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today. — Gabriela Mistral

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful. — Gabriela Mistral

I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests. — Gabriela Isler

When you are trying to get a shot, you can't be pleasing everybody. And I tend to be sort of collaborative and a bit of a pleaser. And when I'm directing, people just sort of call me Black Hat Gabriela. Because suddenly they're like, "What happened to you?" Because I stop listening. And I feel strident. I feel rude. And I feel un-collaborative. — Liz W. Garcia

I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country. — Gabriela Isler

An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts. — Gabriela Isler

Now I have the bravery to do fine things. — Gabriela Sabatini

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make. — Gabriela Sabatini

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today. — Gabriela Mistral

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be. — Gabriela Sabatini

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best. — Gabriela Mistral

Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I'm always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames. — Gabriela M. Sanchez

When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life. — Gabriela Sabatini

I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes! — Gabriela Isler

I didn't know what was going through my mind. — Gabriela Sabatini

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone. — Gabriela Sabatini

We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow,' his name is today. — Gabriela Mistral

For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul. — Gabriela Mistral

It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that. — Gabriela Sabatini

It was so easy to play tennis, so easy. — Gabriela Sabatini

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself. — Gabriela Sabatini

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence. — Gabriela Sabatini

I write poetry because I can't disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I've been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can't be buried away. How to seal myself up now? ... It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel. — Gabriela Mistral