Chile Quotes
56 Chile quotes by 35 unique authors
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As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...] Personally I prefer…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly…
— Denene Millner
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Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military…
— Michelle Bachelet
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It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened:…
— Michelle Bachelet
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People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take…
— Michelle Bachelet
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There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source…
— Michelle Bachelet
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There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't…
— Jimi Hendrix
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The chile, it seems to me, is one of the few foods that has its own goddess.
— Diana Kennedy
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I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it…
— Bobby Flay
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I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.
— Dee Dee Myers
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Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming…
— Augusto Pinochet
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Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
— Eli Roth
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Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under…
— Pablo Neruda
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I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with…
— Bruce Chatwin
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The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me…
— Isabel Allende
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I’s been livin’ a long time in yesterday, Sandy chile, an’ I knows there ain’t no room in de world fo’ nothin’ mo’n love. I…
— Langston Hughes
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On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a…
— Isabel Allende
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Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen…
— Isabel Allende
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I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.
— Isabel Allende
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At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.
— Isabel Allende
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The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am…
— Isabel Allende
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I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby give me a…
— Mike Medavoy
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While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market…
— Elliott Abrams
Who Wrote These Chile Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 56 Chile Quotes, led by these top contributors: