| If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. (Sherman Alexie (88)) | |
| My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. (Sherman Alexie (88)) | |
| The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more. (Sherman Alexie (88)) | |
| A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. (William R. Alger (88)) | |
| After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. (William R. Alger (88)) | |
| False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. (William R. Alger (88)) | |
| He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. (William R. Alger (88)) | |
| Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. (William R. Alger (88)) | |
| The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. (William R. Alger (88)) | |
| The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. (William R. Alger (88)) | |
| To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. (William R. Alger (88)) | |
| What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. (William R. Alger (88)) | |
| Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. (Alphonse Allais (88)) | |
| Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. (Alphonse Allais (88)) | |
| All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
| Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
| Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
| For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
| Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
| I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
| I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
| I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
| We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
| What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. (Isabel Allende (88)) | |
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