Bottarelli Research Quotes & Sayings

It takes only a split second for life to go horribly wrong. To fix the mess, I need a thousand things to go right. The distance from one bit of luck to the next feels as great as the distance across oceans. But, I decide in this moment, I will bridge that distance, again and again, until I win. I will not fail. — Sabaa Tahir

Are stress and worry evidences of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God? To stay in love? I don't like to ask these questions, sweep out these corners where eyes glare from shadows. Stress brings no joy. Isn't joy worth the effort of trust? This is the work (service) that God asks of you: that you believe in the One Whom He has sent [that you cleave to, trust, rely on, and have faith in His Messenger]. — Ann Voskamp

what say you?" "Fuck," came the reply. "Appropriate word choice, my lord, but not really an answer." Wrath — J.R. Ward

Ours has become a world where a tragic number of people are more fascinated by materialism and the lives of distant narcissists than by their own life experience. — Brendon Burchard

Our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face. — Sally Helgesen

No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot. — Nathanael West

There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated. — Alice Walker

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it. — Claire Bloom

Why should she listen to a litany of her flaws when she knew them all so well? She never stood up straight. She always looked down at the ground when she walked. She jutted out her elbows and didn't stand with grace. She never backed up until she felt the chair behind her and then gracefully sank to the cushion like a feather. Instead, she sat like a stone falling to the ground.
When she did laugh, it normally ended in an unladylike snort. She cried much too often when touched by a scene, a flower, a sunset. — Karen Ranney

It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister. — Thomas Merton

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger. — Lynn Margulis

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again. — Philippa Perry

What destiny is there, but to sense, observe, merge, re-emerge,
Empty, yet filled, spreading everywhere, inside, outside, in,
Pulsing, fluctuating, breathing as part of one being,
Whispering, feeling, reflecting, flowing between hot and cold,
Mineral and plant, dark and light, love and fear, new and old. — Jay Woodman