Marilita Accioly Quotes & Sayings

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you. — Emily Giffin

Teenagers, said Luke, as if it were the filthiest word he knew. — Cassandra Clare

I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be. — Mark Lester

Raises a fundamental question: are we also evolving genetically? Medical research, added to a deepening analysis of the three billion nucleotide letters of the human genome, has revealed that evolution is indeed still occurring — Edward O. Wilson

It all comes of being so attractive, as the old lady said when she was struck by lightning. — Jerome K. Jerome

Neil thought about Renee's bruised knuckles, Dan's fierce spirit, and Allison holding her ground on the court a week after Seth's death. He thought about his mother standing unflinching in the face of his father's violent anger and her ruthlessly leaving bodies in their wake. He felt compelled to say, "Some of the strongest people I've known are women. — Nora Sakavic

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community. — Bob Brown

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human. — Theodore Dalrymple

We must never ignore or pass by the prompting of the Spirit to render service to one another. — M. Russell Ballard

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time. — Satyajit Ray

The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute. — Christopher Hitchens

Natural gas is not a bridge - it's a gangplank. — Michael Brune

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. — Robert Staughton Lynd