Adoptaraptor Quotes & Sayings

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't. — Jay Samit

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived. — Charlotte Bronte

You don't know?" he whispered harshly. "You truly don't know that you mean everything to me?"
Hardly daring to believe her ears, Mia pushed at his chest to put a little distance between them so she could look up at his face. "I do?"
"Of course, you do." His gaze burned into her with an intensity she had never seen before. "How could you doubt it?"
"Are . . . are you saying you love me?" she asked tremulously, afraid to even voice such a possibility. What if he said no? What if she'd misunderstood him, and he would now laugh at her silliness? Her chest tightened in anxious anticipation.
"Mia, I love you more than life itself," he said, his voice rough with emotion. "If anything happened to you . . . If you were gone, I would not want to go on living. Do you understand me? — Anna Zaires

The MAX made a stop in Old Town. Grandma nudged me with her purse. "This is where we get off." I followed her from the MAX down an alley between a strip club and a Chinese restaurant. What? Your grandma doesn't hang out in places like that too? — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

Hard work is the engine that produces success. Hard work is success in realization. — Elijah Aduh

Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the song became a different thing from what it had been, barely recognizable in either tune or lyric. But you could not say the song had been improved, for as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. — Charles Frazier

We can request love, but we cannot demand love. — Gary Chapman

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends. — Zachary Taylor

I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever. — Philip K. Dick

That,' Peregrine said, 'is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were. — Alastair Reynolds

And in your ruins, I breathe to exist. — Prachi Prangya Agasti

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace. — Donna Goddard

Suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be. — Janne Teller

I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge. — Eugene Cernan

Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it. — Patricia Ryan