Verenice Guzman Quotes & Sayings

Be Bold! Be Strong! Cling to thoughts of victory and deliverance. You are Victorious By Design! — Ann Marie Bryan

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. — Plutarch

I am not going to let him win, Guillaume. Not this time. I could not keep him from making my mother pay the price for our failed rebellion. Fifteen years she has been his prisoner, fifteen years! And she is his prisoner, for all that she no longer wants for a queen's comforts. I have had to submit to his demands and subject myself to his whims and endure the indignity of having him brandish the crown before me as he would tease a dog with a bone. But no more. I will not let him rob me of my birthright, and I will not let him keep me from honoring my vow to defend the Holy Land. I do think he is behind that very opportune rebellion in my duchy, and I would not put it past him to be conniving with the Count of Toulouse, either. And if by chance he did not, it is only because he did not think of it. No, a reckoning is long overdue, and we will have it at Bonsmoulins. — Sharon Kay Penman

The world will not change on its own. So we must stick together and put in the effort to change the world together. — Unanimous

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice. — Pope Francis

You live well.
The slum must be inside you. — Tomas Transtromer

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it. — Julie Mehretu

Separate yourself from your ideas and your work and see them as something separate from yourself, you'll feel you truly have the right to be wrong. If an idea fails, why not let it be the idea's fault instead of your own? Allow your ideas to fail without turning them into personal defeat. When you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesn't, it's still a more interesting path than being nothing. — Steve Pavlina

Every president, Democrat or Republican, every Congress, has gotten behind the idea that we have to invest in our highways, our bridges, our roads, our airports. The idea that now this is somehow a partisan issue, it boggles the mind. — Antonio Villaraigosa

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way. — Randy Harrison

Being worshipped is a horrible experience. — John Fahey