Nodoka Quotes & Sayings

I always try to write about believable people. — Danielle Steel

When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful. It isn't until the fifth stage of grief that the memories of them stop hurting as much; when the recollections become positive. When you stop thinking about the person's death, and remember all of the wonderful things about their life. — Colleen Hoover

All through life that piece of crape had hung between him and the world; it had separated him from cheerful brotherhood and woman's love and kept him in that saddest of all prisons his own heart; — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive. — Elsie De Wolfe

No other foreskin could have caused such trouble. — Peter Manseau

Ah. I smiled. I'm not really here to keep you from freaking out. I'm here to be with you while you freak out, or grieve or laugh or suffer or sing. It is a ministry of presence. It is showing up with a loving heart. — Kate Braestrup

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections. — Mary E. Pearson

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. — Philip Emeagwali

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it. — Bob Inglis

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. — Michael Landon

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us. — Sheryl Sandberg

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that. — Charles Jencks