Federica Montseny Quotes

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

Federica Montseny

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: February 12, 1905 - January 14, 1994

Topics

HonestyMenBetterDesireBlood

One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project for me always is to turn that instinctive stuff into pages that work.

Jennifer Egan

WorkGoodMeWriteFirstProject

I want to show people all of me, because that's what I haven't been doing. To be able to play so many instruments, and no one's ever seen me play, it seems like someone who's bluffing.

Jeremih

PeopleMeSomeoneDoingPlayWant

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

John Doerr

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Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

Jeff Ross

LifePainLife Is ShortShortLaugh

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

Ann Bancroft

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As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.

Tony Evans

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In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

Tom Robbins

ShoesWalkYourselfSunCloudsYou

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

Robin Wright

DanceLovedAlwaysSomethingMove

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

Luc Ferrari

LiveHateBornParisNowSuburbs

Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

Joyce Carol Oates

GirlBlackAmericaRoommatesKnow

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

Jonas Mekas

WorkMyselfFamousFriendsMoments

When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

Derek Cianfrance

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