Kekai Rios Quotes & Sayings

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle. — Mickey Rourke

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom. — Lin Yutang

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation. — Maria Montessori

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Just play it cool," Dax says.
He has forced me to don a pair of dark gray slacks and a white button-up shirt. Contrary to his protests, I have pushed the sleeves of the shirt up past my elbows, but I make sure the scars on my arm, which spell out Daphne's name, are covered. I feel overly warm and suffocated in these clothes. "I don't understand. You want me to pretend to be cold?" I fake a shiver. "Like this? What's the point?"
Dax tries to stifle a laugh - not very well - and I realize I've been tripped up by another one of these "figures of speech" that I keep running into. I'm beginning to hate the English language. — Bree Despain

The people who read pirated books are never going to buy your work anyway; it's a totally different audience than purchasing readers. Even if you could scrub your stuff from the Internet, you'd only be keeping your book from pirate readers. You wouldn't convert those readers into buyers. They'd simply read something else that was free. — Sean Platt

Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast. — Terry Goodkind

And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine. — Sarah J. Maas

Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs. — Steve Ilg

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards. — Samuel R. Delany

It's a terrible thing to be alone
yes it is
it is
but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath
as terrible as you like
but a mask. — Katherine Mansfield

plews." Glass paid the captain his full attention. Every citizen of St. Louis knew some version of Drouillard's story, but Glass had never heard a first-person account. "He did that twice, went out and came back with a pack of plews. Last thing he said before he left the third time was, — Michael Punke

We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got nothing and were lucky to get home! — Dally Messenger

He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers. — William Wells Brown

Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions.
Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien. — Lailah Gifty Akita