Leonilde Pamplona Quotes & Sayings

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer. — Leo Tolstoy

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences. — Laverne Cox

Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster. — Amos Oz

A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality. — Eboo Patel

I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.
We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet. — Rabindranath Tagore

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. — Rose Schneiderman

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity. — Bernard Marcus

Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. — Timothy Snyder

Poetry?"
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"No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head. — Mary E. Pearson

With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge. — Lauren Oliver

If you cannot change your condition, change your perception. — Debasish Mridha

Karl and Marthe held the embossed card gingerly. It was Hitler's 1941 Christmas card, a photo of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, an ancient Greek statue the Wehrmacht had taken from the Louvre. His greeting was printed: Our Winged Victory. Beneath that was a scrawl with only the A and H legible. "He . . . touched this," Marthe said. Her hands shook, nearly dropping the card. — Gregory Benford

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses. — Jonathan Swift