Mariasolesss Quotes & Sayings

In this state, the club was The Wizard of Oz made obvious: All the magic that went on here night after night, all the buzz and excitement, was really just a combination of electronics, booze, and chemicals, an illusion for the people who walked through the front doors, a fantasy that allowed them to be whatever they weren't in their day-to-day lives. — J.R. Ward

Noon bells sang out with their usual ignorance of mood, marking out moments of grief and worry, elation and confusion. The bells said that at its core, human life was fundamentally a sort of organic clockwork, while the winds and skylarks that swept against the sound of metronomic iron timekeeping argued for variety, subtlety, epiphany. — Gregory Maguire

I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night. — Patrick Kane

Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways. — Josh Peck

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now. — Nicholas Sparks

The Chinese ate soy as a protein source only when they were starving - when they also ate their children. — Anonymous

The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy. — John C. Goodman

Certainly the European overlords did little enough to prepare Africa for self-government but Democracy would find it hard in any case to put down roots in a tribalist and patrimonial culture that long before the west invaded Africa had sacralized the personal authority of chieftains and ordained the submission of the rest. What the west would call corruption is regarded through much of Africa as no more than the prerogative of power. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Embrace truth and peace as you breathe the joyful heights of inner fulfilling serenity. — Angelica Hopes