Carlos Rizo Quotes & Sayings

Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot of a week ago had turned out to be a real revolution and the shadow of death actually threatened all of us who were of the ruling cast. — Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna Of Russia

Resting beside her, he seemed to Ildiko a living statue, carved from dark granite into a form of supple elegance and power. He was beautiful, and the tremor change in her perception of him robbed her lungs of air.
He opened both eyes suddenly, making her jump. Two shimmering gold coins stared at her unblinking. "Good evening, wife," he said in a voice raspy with the remnants of sleep. A closed-lip smile curved his mouth upward and deepened the tiny lines that fanned from the corners of his eyes. "You're staring. Do I have a fly on my nose?"
Fighting down a blush at being caught gawking at her own husband, Ildiko lightly tapped the tip of his nose with one finger. "I was trying to find a way to kill it without punching you in the face. Lucky for you, it flew away. — Grace Draven

In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy. — Ruth Rendell

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention. — Hakeem Olajuwon

Acting was my first love before music. — Crystal Bowersox

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living. — Philippe Petit

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing. — Jorge Cruise

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine. — Bertrand Russell

An act of thinking without restriction- without boundaries or rules can lead to the point of no return. — Sean William Scott

I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society. — Laurene Powell Jobs

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity. — Erwin W. Lutzer

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination. — Parker J. Palmer

You can't get angry just because you can't control the world as you please. — Cho Kyuhyun

Interesting that the book used the word define.
That's just what I've been thinking about.
This business of defining who you are
and what you are
and where you are headed-
it's all harder than I thought it would be.
I thought that this stuff
just ...
happened,
I thought that life
just happened,
and I guess I thought
I'd drift right along,
like a leaf on a river,
flowing with the current
to wherever the river wanted to go. — Kelly Bingham

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. — Jean De La Bruyere