« All Us Quotes · Isabel Allende's Page
Us Quotes by Isabel Allende
- I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
- 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…
- 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…
- Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
- Barrabas came to us by the sea.
- Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
- Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us…
- I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each…
- It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like…
- Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print,…
- We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
- My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong