Donetiz Quotes & Sayings

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. — Bobby Darin

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Not a day goes by that I don't still need to remind myself that my life is not just what's handed to me, nor is it my list of obligations, my accomplishments or failures, or what my family is up to, but rather it is what I choose, day in and day out, to make of it all. When I am able simply to be with things as they are, able to accept the day's challenges without judging, reaching, or wishing for something else, I feel as if I am receiving the privilege, coming a step closer to being myself. It's when I get lost in the day's details, or so caught up in worries about what might be, that I miss the beauty of what is. — Katrina Kenison

When my girl do better than me, I still win. When I do better than her, she still wins. — Meek Mill

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. — Simone De Beauvoir

It is remarkable how quickly extraordinary things turn ordinary. — Nathan Hill

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space. — Bryan Stevenson

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. — Olivia De Havilland

The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying. — Ruth Reichl

It was as if this early promiscuous mingling of races and ideas, modes of dress and ways of living, was something that was on no one's agenda and suited nobody's version of events. All sides seemed, for different reasons, to be slightly embarrassed by this moment of crossover, which they preferred to pretend had never happened. It is, after all, always easier to see things in black and white. — William Dalrymple

Even in silence and darkness, the heart can see more beauty than the eyes. — Debasish Mridha

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? — Bikram Choudhury

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody. — Natasha Lyonne

Steven Barnes is uniquely powerful in helping others balance their physica and emotional arenas along a path of unifying purpose. — Gerald M. Levin