Carisa Janes Quotes & Sayings

Darling, we're going to hurt each other. That's what happens when you're in a relationship." The smile faded from his lips. "It has already happened and yet, here we still are."
- Graham, 'Wheeler — Sara Butler Zalesky

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world ... We are not a nation, so much as a world. — Herman Melville

Change what you can if it needs
changing, but learn to live with what you can't change. — Robert Jordan

I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from day one after she died, I liked having a dead mother much more than having an impossible one. [p. 47] — Anne Lamott

The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist. — Norman Mailer

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself. — Daisy Ridley

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist. — January Jones

I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country. — Louisa May Alcott

Small government is beautiful — Carla Howell

People need love. It's the most powerful emotion in the world. — Michael Jackson

Live to ask. Die to answer. — Raheel Farooq

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. — Rodney Dangerfield

I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times' will take. Many Years, and perhaps Centuries must pass, before the current will acquire a Settled direction... yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistic Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1,500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, July 16 1814} — John Adams

I boil the strings so they stretch. — Eddie Van Halen

When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me. — Alice Walker