Marafioti Poker Quotes & Sayings

Expecting people to read your mind hardly ever gets you what you desire. — Sue Patton Thoele

How I wish I were able to say what I think ... — Gertrude Stein

Mama, black and white is boring, deep within the gray is where the real action is. — Jan Tilley

No one ever forgot the joy of bringing to work the wholeness of mind, body, and spirit; discovering in the process that such wholeness is impossible without inseparable connection with others in the larger purpose of community effort. — Anonymous

I watched as she took a second sip, imagining the alcohol crossing the placental wall, damaging brain cells, reducing our unborn child from a future Einstein to a physicist who would fall just short of taking science to a new level. — Graeme Simsion

I honestly believe that most of us - while we might say we want to be led by the Spirit - are actually scared of this reality. I know I am. What would it mean? What if He asks you to give up something you're not ready to give up? What if He leads you where you don't want to go? What if he tells you to change jobs? To move? Are you willing to surrender to Him, no matter where He wants to take you? Am I? — Francis Chan

Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Well, let me tell you something, darling: money, elite social status and the power they confer are every bit as wonderful as they're cracked up to be. — Elizabeth Kelly

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement. — John Locke

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected. — Jodi Picoult

Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. — Rich Cohen

Memory is a tough place. You were there. — Claudia Rankine