Carrabine Quotes & Sayings

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. — Brenna Yovanoff

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. — William Law

You are the light of my life and I believe in you. — David Gaider

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. — Mary Rose McGeady

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer. — Arthur Hailey

What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love? — John Zachary Young

Perry," he said quietly, his fingers trailing down the side of my face, "you'll never have to save my life. You gave me life. I never lived a single day until the first day I met you. — Karina Halle

We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside, she say. — Lisa Wingate

Your thoughts are transparent. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, 'So this is how it feels,' and I would tie it up in pretty words. I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. For I knew I could take my broken heart and place it on the stage of The Globe, and make the pit cry tears of their own. — Neil Gaiman

...[I]t doesn't take an advanced degree to figure out that this education talk is less a strategy for mitigating inequality than it is a way of rationalizing it. To attribute economic results to school years finished and SAT scores achieved is to remove matters from the realm of, well, economics and to relocate them to the provinces of personal striving and individual intelligence. From this perspective, wages aren't what they are because one party (management) has a certain amount of power over the other (workers); wages are like that because the god of the market, being surpassingly fair, rewards those who show talent and gumption. Good people are those who get a gold star from their teacher in elementary school, a fat acceptance letter from a good college, and a good life when they graduate. All because they are the best. Those who don't pay attention in high school get to spend their days picking up discarded cans by the side of the road. Both outcomes are our own doing. — Thomas Frank

she'd forgotten snow could be quite so beautiful. Snow, in her experience, was something that needed to be removed. It was a chore that fell from the sky. But — Louise Penny

I felt I was owned by possessions. — Nicolas Berggruen

You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work. — Wallace D. Wattles

With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote. — Barack Obama