Hellenga Robert Quotes & Sayings

How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best! — Charles James Fox

Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get. They don't drop those drugs off in Beverly Hills. They drop them off in the ghetto. Then they tell us it's wrong to sell them. Well, we didn't bring them here. We just sell them. I was selling, like I sold newspapers. — Snoop Dogg

There was a time I didn't know your name
Why should I worry, cry in vain
but now she's gone, and I don't worry
cause I'm sittin' on top of the world. — Robert Hellenga

Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention. — Robert Hellenga

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got. — Robert Hellenga

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them. — Robert Hellenga

A fixed mindset causes people to fear failure; they don't want to try anything that might damage their current sense of ability and intelligence. Their self-worth and identity are wrapped up in not making a mistake, so they gravitate to fail-safe activities. People with growth mindsets, on the other hand, seek out challenges and activities that expand their abilities. The fixed mindset seeks sameness and validation; the growth mindset seeks learning and adaptation. — David Sturt

He knew that he'd known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things. — Robert Hellenga

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males. — Maureen Reagan

Szeth could feel the Light's warmth, its fury, like a tempest that had been injected directly into his veins. The power of it was invigorating but dangerous. It pushed him to act. To move. To strike. — Brandon Sanderson

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men. — Michel Tremblay

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows. — Robert Hellenga

Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them. — Bryant McGill

However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads. — Robert Hellenga

I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all. — Carolyn See

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end. — Robert Hellenga

I almost never slept deeply anymore
as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was. — Cynthia Kadohata

She heard melody and harmony and counterpoint; he heard something calling him from far, far away. — Robert Hellenga

England is safe, if true within itself. — William Shakespeare

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't. — Jon Huntsman Jr.

Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London. Own a pet giraffe. Skydive. Divide by zero. Play the piano. Speak French. Write a book. Travel to a different planet. Be a better dad than mine was. Feel good about myself. Go to New York City. Know equality. Live. — Jennifer Niven

He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of actual enjoyment. Most people don't know what they like because they feel obligated to like so many different things. They feel they're supposed to be overwhelmed, so instead of looking, they spend their time thinking up something to say, something intelligent, or at least clever. — Robert Hellenga

All I know is that my life is filled with little pockets of silence. When I put a record on the turntable, for example, there's a little interval-between the time the needle touches down on the record and the time the music actually starts-during which my heart refuses to beat. All I know is that between the rings of the telephone, between the touch of a button and the sound of the radio coming on, between the dimming of the lights at the cinema and the start of the film, between the lightning and the thunder, between the shout and the echo, between the lifting of a baton and the opening bars of a symphony, between the dropping of a stone and the plunk that comes back from the bottom of a well, between the ringing of the doorbell and the barking of the dogs I sometimes catch myself, involuntarily, listening for the sound of my mother's voice, still waiting for the tape to begin. — Robert Hellenga

He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy. — Robert Hellenga

What to do with the past? There was so much of it. — Robert Hellenga