Nelden Torres Quotes & Sayings

If there's something you want, pursue it. Hope has power. Don't waste it on foolish things. — Laini Taylor

I feel something very small growing inside me as I look at her, and I realize in one absolutely clear moment that I don't like her at all.
'You know what?' I say. 'Forget it. I'll do the list by myself.'
She stands up, swings her stupid hair about and tries to look offended. It's a trick that works with guys, but it makes no difference to the way I feel about her. — Jenny Downham

God's call on our lives is often surprising and usually is based on God's ability to see how our various elements in the past might fit together to accomplish God's purposes in the present. — Adam Hamilton

Sometimes, I have a dared dream to myself that one day, history may even say that my voice--which disturbed the white man's smugness, and his arrogance, and his complacency--that my voice helped to save America from a grave, possibly even a fatal catastrophe. — Malcolm X

Eighty percent of all cultures are the same, it is the 20% that make a culture unique and slam dunks the brand promise to the customer. — Curt Coffman

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double. — Jet Li

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to. — Mike Krzyzewski

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. — P. J. O'Rourke

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them. — Cale Yarborough

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time. — Jacques Verges

Is it the pauses, not the parties, that create the friendship? — Lynette Chiang

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived. — Barbara Walters