Michaelle Rafferty Quotes & Sayings

Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations. — Judy Woodruff

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result
eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly
in you. — Bill Bryson

If the subject's easy we may all be wise;
What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. — Ovid

Those who hold power and influence in government either have limited interest in implementation or, in particular in the case of the prime minister and his most senior advisors, cannot find time in their busy agenda to think about implementation. They all too often assume that the machinery of government will do as it is told. — Donald J. Savoie

He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. — James Baldwin

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. — Kevin Bacon

She hesitated a moment then slipped her arm through his. "Just remember, I lead, you follow."
"Okay, but when we're dancing at the wedding, I lead, you follow."
She sighed dramatically. "I guess I can agree to that."
He chuckled. "See? I have a feeling this the beginning of a beautiful fake relationship."
She worried her bottom lip as they walked toward the kitchen together. "I'm sure glad one of us feels that way. — Jennifer Shirk

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable — Ashley Montagu

She said to him, 'You might melt.' And he said, "If I melt, you can make me again. — Elizabeth Knox

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity. — John Mearsheimer

Do any of us have a choice where destiny is concerned? — Cynthia Hand