Victor Villasenor quotes

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.
-- Victor Villasenor

#Enemy

Women have to be careful to not wear out their husbands on their honeymoons, or they get so weak that they can't go to work!
-- Victor Villasenor

#Husband #Weak #Honeymoon

And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete,
-- Victor Villasenor

#Weed #Water #Rose

No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you.
-- Victor Villasenor

#Light #Complaining #Reaching

And also--to add to my problems--my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.
-- Victor Villasenor

#Parent #Miracle #Feelings

Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?
-- Victor Villasenor

#Children #Heart #Thinking

Talking to God was damned good business.
-- Victor Villasenor

#Talking #Good Business #Talking To God

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!
-- Victor Villasenor

#Hurt #Pain #Heart

Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.
-- Victor Villasenor

#People #Jaguars #Common

Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.

Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.