Un Ciudadano Ejemplar Quotes & Sayings

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try. — Gary Zukav

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is. — Tea Obreht

This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee, it will dry up all the springs of vice, stop all the workings of evil in thy nature, it will bring all that is good into thee, it will open all the gospel within thee, and thou wilt know what it is to be taught of God. — William Law

If you eat dead food, you are going to feel dead. If you eat live food, you are going to feel alive. — Jason Vale

Segmented killing and hatred will only stop when we enlarge our personal, national, and international circles of concern to include all six billion people on this planet: not just the white ones, Christian ones, American ones, female ones, or any ones. Simply put: every one. — Cindy Sheehan

Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable. — Shaun King

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?'
'I'm not sure ... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person. — Judy Blume

Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Japan and Hong Kong are steadily whittling away at the last of the elephants, turning their tusks (so much more elegant left on the elephant) into artistic carvings. In much the same way, the beautiful furs from leopard, jaguar, Snow leopard, Clouded leopard and so on, are used to clad the inelegant bodies of thoughtless and, for the most part, ugly women. I wonder how many would buy these furs if they knew that on their bodies they wore the skin of an animal that, when captured, was killed by the medieval and agonizing method of having a red-hot rod inserted up its rectum so as not to mark the skin. — Gerald Durrell

You are full of potential. You are overflowing with creativity. There's nothing in your heart that you cannot accomplish. — Joel Osteen

Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas what you're talking about is mere low-class smut, which every schoolboy has encountered before he's in long pants. — Paul La Farge

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways. — Lester Holt