Donnetta Quotes & Sayings

They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It's the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn't have sisu, that's like spitting in his face. — Arthur Lydiard

Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free. — Geena Rocero

We are here to take chances, and fail, and keep trying. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. — Francois Rabelais

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing. — Kathryn Harrison

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair. — D. A. Carson

He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight.
He was made of darkness. — Victoria Schwab

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age ... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress ... — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else. — Ray Lewis

For all my ignominy, pain and submission, this moment delivers an inexplicable switch in power. Now he is all suffering and longing and I feel like a wanton goddess. Of course we all know that he is going to get what he wants, but the exchange between us is
undeniable. I know we both acknowledge it. — Felicity Brandon

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor. — Aelred Of Rievaulx

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win. — Sylvia Day

None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness. — Pearl Zhu

In the case of "A Rape on Campus," the risk of being taken in was compounded by Ms. Erdely's approach. She was steered to "Jackie," as she referred to the University of Virginia student in question, by a party with a vested interest: a rape survivor and sexual assault activist on campus. — Anonymous

You're all alone. No one wants you anymore. How long did you think we would all stay? You've killed each and every person who ever loved you. Even your children won't want you. They will see what you have done. You must be the first ward in history to treat your guardian so badly that he left you. Do you think your mistress will stay? No. Elizabeth will take what she wanted and then she will leave you too. — S.K.N. Hammerstone