Isabel Allende Quotes

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: August 2, 1942

Topics

LifeSocietyGunThinkingAmerican

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Jeanette Winterson

SchoolMindEveryoneBeingBecause

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

John Woo

TeamHardTwoAudienceUpFilm

Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?

Matt Bevin

ThinkGenerationHonorGivingOthers

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

Mike Pence

LiveDayThoughtAmericanNeverSee

Everybody wants all of our businesses to have no restrictions in any country, but even in Canada, in order to distribute home entertainment, you need to follow the Canadian rules, and it's just about as hard to do business there as it is in China.

Jon Feltheimer

HomeBusinessYouRulesCanadaNeed

I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place.

Dianne Reeves

MeYouPlaceWillMusicallyCertain

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

Corbin Bernsen

ActLikeDirectSomeThemProduce

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

FireIntelligenceMindVesselFilled

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Paul Tsongas

JourneyChildrenCommitmentMeTrue

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

Sheldon Whitehouse

GovernmentPoliticalSpecialSystem

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

LoveLove IsValueEnergyOwnWhich

There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man.

Tituss Burgess

GreatManWorldMeasureAgainst

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