Maribel Quotes & Sayings

If you can't fuck it, eat it or use it for a weapon
kill it. — Karen Marie Moning

Reading is food for the brain. — Maribel C. Pagan

Using various combinations of the five contextual forces, forward-thinking marketers are shifting focus away from mass messages and more into what Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research, calls "right-time experiences," where mobile technologies deliver customers the right information "at precisely the moment of need. — Robert Scoble

People know two languages: their native language and gibberish. — Maribel C. Pagan

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. — Dalia Mogahed

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. — Thomas Merton

Any city in any country, including my own hometown, was to me just another place where I might live or might not live. — Kurt Vonnegut

This affliction
hope
is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me — Patricia McCormick

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. — Mother Maribel

I can say I didn't win, but I can't say that I didn't try. — Maribel C. Pagan

Now a second-order vain person is a vain person who's also vain about appearing to have an utter lack of vanity. Who's enormously afraid that other people will perceive him as vain. A second-order vain person will sit up late learning jokes in order to appear funny and charming, but will deny that he sits up late learning jokes. Or he'll perhaps even try to give the impression that he doesn't regard himself as funny at all. — David Foster Wallace

I've learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God. — Maribel C. Pagan

I don't have a crush on her! Yet!"
"Say no more, Dylan-whatever your middle name is-Blair!"
"David."
"Whatever. By the power and duty of big brother, I command you to not have a crush on my sister, until I know you better enough!"
"That's actually quite fair." "But I don't have a crush on her! — Rea Lidde

A series of books is really one book separated into several. — Maribel C. Pagan

We are the reflections for the stars to gaze upon, upon a sea of glass. — Tom Althouse

Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not? — Elena Ferrante

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. — Mother Maribel

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage. — Michael Hutchence

People know me more than I know myself. — Maribel C. Pagan

After all, what girl wants to fall in love with a boy who doesn't come to her rescue when she needs it most? — Rachel Van Dyken

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes. — Mother Maribel

Because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence. — Peter Drucker

It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat. — John Steinbeck