Maika Rivera Quotes & Sayings

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil

He let her mind wander back over her stay at Grand Isle; and she tried to discover wherein this summer had been different from any and every other summer of her life. She could only realize that she herself - her present self - was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes and making the acquaintance of new conditions in herself that colored and changed her environment, she did not yet suspect. — Kate Chopin

Who knows, maybe there never was a curse. Maybe it was just us-all of us-thinking that we deserved one. — Anne Fortier

The Internet, of course, is more than a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs. — Philip Elmer-DeWitt

I often think ... that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal. — James V. Schall

We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart's grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love — W.B.Yeats

She came downstairs like a doe stepping into a clearing on the first day of hunting season. I felt like a coward. I was lower than dirt. I had used every trick in my book to get her to come downstairs. I had manipulated her emotions, cheated and wormed to beat her at this game we were playing. But then I saw her, and I was so happy. I knew I would have burned the building down for the sight of her running toward me out of the flames. — Candice Raquel Lee

But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them. — Orson Scott Card

I have to concede that I have often needed things that are not only bad for, but very, very dangerous. — J. Kenner

Hola, Senora Santos," Dusty called to her as she — Chris Barnhart

In the East, especially in contemplative traditions like those of Buddhism, being distracted by thought is understood to be the very wellspring of human suffering. — Sam Harris

There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong — Evan Meekins

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round. — David Lodge

There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have. — Trey Parker