Manita De Like Quotes & Sayings

We're screwed," Arriane said, kicking a cloud in frustration. She glared at its wispy tendrils, which ambled eastward, unaffected. "That's never as satisfying as I think it's going to be. — Lauren Kate

Girls rival each other. Women revive each other.
Girls empale each other. Women empower each other.
Girls compare each other. Women champion each other. — Ann Voskamp

Samp. 'Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant. When I have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids- I will cut off their heads. Greg. The heads of the maids? Samp. Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads. — William Shakespeare

The Russians are a little stronger, but they excel at the basics. Lock the hands, bear hugs, takedowns, riding are all strong points for them, whereas Americans tend to have more finesse and take more risks. They might let you up in order to hit something else, and that's completely different from the Russian approach. — Gilbert Melendez

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor. — Brian Tracy

There was, for example, the theory that A'Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait, into nowhere, for all time. This theory was popular among academics. — Terry Pratchett

Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. — Walter Wink

Look back with compassion, look forward with curiosity, but live for the present moment with wonder and joy. — Debasish Mridha

The belief that success was something that just happened to you, that you just did your thing, and if you were deserving, it was bestowed by the same invisible hand that ensured that the deli would have milk to drink and sandwiches to buy. — Adelle Waldman

You see, one of the reason why I embark on this journey is to question myself on the many myth of security that has been imprinted on us from the day we are born.
... It was also driven from my readings on the early theory of feminism (Simone de Beauvoir's) that say that 80% of a woman's life everyday (in a house) is spent cleaning the dirt that keeps on coming back. Therefore I wanted to explore the other side of it, that is, if I don't have a house, what would the 80% of my day be filled with? — Mislina Mustaffa

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics. — John Boehner

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. — Karl Marx

You don't need to retouch if you know how to light. — Mary Ellen Mark

Threats of retaliation had existed from early in the war. Historian Lonnie Speer notes that the Civil War devolved rapidly: "Within months of its beginning this conflict was anything but 'civil' and conducted by anyone but 'gentlemen.'" Regarding this "war of vengeance," he maintains, "There is ample documentation to suggest that both sides quite commonly practiced retaliatory measures against each other for real or imagined wrongs. — Brian Steel Wills

He couldn't be the type of guy she probably deserved - someone her own age without baggage or complications. But he could be the man she needed. — Shelly Bell