Portarosa Quotes & Sayings

I'm not an aspiring rapper, I'm not a gang member, I'm not a dope dealer, I don't have multiple babies momma's. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didn't need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It's in my DNA. — Christopher Dorner

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well. — Propertius

Don't let disappointment own your life.
You can always rise above any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty. — Christian Louboutin

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. — Leon M. Lederman

Gratitude opens our eyes to miracles that surround us. Life's a miracle and a gift. Take every breath in gratitude — D. Denise Dianaty

How to repulse a demon (an old problem)? The demons, especially if they are demons of language (and what else could they be?) are fought by language. Hence I can hope to exorcise the demonic word which is breathed into my ears (by myself) if I substitute for it (if I have the gifts of language for doing so) another, calmer word (I yield to euphemism). Thus: I imagined I had escaped from the crisis at last, when behold
favored by a long car trip
a flood of language sweeps me away, I keep tormenting myself with the thought, desire, regret, and rage of the other; and I add to these wounds the discouragement of having to acknowledge that I am falling back, relapsing; but the French vocabulary is a veritable pharmacopoeia (poison on one side, antidote on the other): no, this is not a relapse, only a last soubresaut, a final convulsion of the previous demon. — Roland Barthes

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty! — Friedrich Nietzsche

He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head. — George Herbert

couldn't find a way into a way out — Dick Russell

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true. — David Caruso

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. — William Shakespeare

the future, Hugues — Danielle Steel