Corasanti Quotes & Sayings

No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should. — Meg Cabot

I want you to notice that right now, this instant, we are having a conversation. It's really not hard, now, is it? Think you we can carry this on for the rest of the day? (Callie) — Kinley MacGregor

Don't allow guilt to enter your heart, because it's a disease, like cancer, that'll eat away at you until there's nothing left. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

One cannot live on anger, my son. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they are, and the more power and money they need. — Dan Groat

Football changes and so do people. — Bear Bryant

Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

I had no idea words could have so much power and beauty. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Before you judge a person, try to imagine how you would feel if the same things had happened to you. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

And it suddenly occured to me that maybe peace was possible. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

She puts on her poker face; I don't have any extra faces to put on, just the normal Craig face. — Ned Vizzini

American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom. — Marcus Garvey

Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?'
'We do.' I smiled.
He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me.
'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind was strong, the scent of their blossoms in the spring and their fruit in the summer still reached us. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Success is not about never falling, but about rising every time you fall — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

He who aims too high will get a sore neck — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

People hate out of fear and ignorance. If they could just get to know the people they hate, and focus on their common interests, they could overcome that hatred. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Throughout history the conquerors have always treated the conquered this way. The bad ones need to believe we're inferior to justify the way they treat us. If they only could realize that we're all the same. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

He seemed to think we were on the same page. I wasn't even sure we were reading the same book. — Jodie Andrefski

Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come
mixed motives and all. — Richard J. Foster

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu. — Kirby Wright

Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war — Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Hatred is self-punishment.Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them? — Michelle Cohen Corasanti