Rigoberta Menchu Quotes

When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.

Rigoberta Menchu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: January 9, 1959

Topics

FightYouJustYourCauseConvinced

I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'

Jeff Giles

QuestionsTwoPreparedInterested

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

Rosamunde Pilcher

MarriageTodayJobPeopleToo Much

I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick.

Monica Bellucci

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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

Lois McMaster Bujold

WorkExperienceMeCareHospital

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

Janina Gavankar

UpPianoPlayingPercussionGrew

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

Brian McKnight

BusinessYouKnowNeedSideThings

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

Anne Sullivan

HistoryLightWorldHumanityDark

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

William Shakespeare

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Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes. Bin Laden believed that without that American support, the Arab regimes would collapse and would be replaced by Taliban-style rulers.

Peter Bergen

SupportPressureAmericanCreate

Things for me really started to click right after my third year in the league. I sort of figured out that there were a few things that I needed to do if I wanted to get better - I needed to gain some more weight and add some strength.

Scottie Pippen

StrengthMeBetterYearMoreRight

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

Ryan Holiday

PerfectionDisappointmentSatisfaction

I can remember dancing around living room with my two sisters to the music of Paganini and Mozart. I can still remember my dad combing the newspaper, circling all the free concerts in town, and on the weekends, we would go as a family.

Lindsey Stirling

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