Menetes Sz Rak Quotes & Sayings

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. — Jean Rostand

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The first Amy Silver book was commissioned, and they were not books that came completely from me. They weren't necessarily the sort of books I read, and although I enjoyed doing them very much, and they were great training, I never felt completely comfortable in that genre. — Paula Hawkins

Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God. — Bob Pierce

I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I've ever been in and ever seen. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage." (137) — Jessica Stern

FOCUS, FOCUS, CONSOLIDATED FOCUS.
BEWARE OF DISTRACTION — Ikechukwu Joseph

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996. — John Edwards

As people began playing, Delgado watched the activity in their striata. This time, when people were allowed to make their own choices, their brains lit up just like in the previous experiment. They showed the neurological equivalents of anticipation and excitement. But during those rounds when participants didn't have any control over their guesses, when the computer made a choice for them, people's striata went essentially silent. It was as if their brains became uninterested in the exercise. There was "robust activity in the caudate nucleus only when subjects" were permitted to guess, Delgado and his colleagues later wrote. "The anticipation of choice itself was associated with increased activity in corticostriatal regions, particularly the ventral striatum, involved in affective and motivational processes." What — Charles Duhigg

I love Terry Porter. — Amar'e Stoudemire

All problems are simply interruptions in the transmission and preservation of data, he reminded himself. — G. Willow Wilson

We're going to have to play pretend, Sam says.
He has no idea how good I am at playing pretend. But I guess that's a different kind of pretend, a pretend that can't be obvious. Here we revel in the pretend, laugh at it, become children within it. We walk rings around the carousel horses, trying to find our perfect steeds. We dangle at the bottom of the Ferris wheel and pretend that it is taking us up, up, up. I allow myself to relax. I allow myself to enjoy it. I even get lost in it. — David Levithan