Quinones Quotes & Sayings

To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

If you do something bad to me, and I say "okay, let's move on," it does not mean I forgive you. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

If you don't like men who physically abuse women, stop telling your son it's okay to hit a little girl if she's bothering him. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

2008: Drug overdoses, mostly from opiates, surpass auto fatalities as leading cause of accidental death in the United States. — Sam Quinones

It's okay to offer criticism if your intention is to be helpful. But if you only criticize when there is an audience to applaud and snicker ... For shame!! — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I know if I weren't writing about the things I'd like to do I'd be out doing them.
Including killing a whole bunch of folks — Karen E. Quinones Miller

You must lose, at least once, in order to fully appreciate a win! — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

It's so good to have the opportunity to help others who have helped you.
It's not about "tit for tat," it's about "I love you, too. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their families, for my family and for the future generations of our country. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

But they are not entitled to pain relief. — Sam Quinones

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

It is sad when people only use their connections & resources for themselves. How very self-centered. Use your platform to help others. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

To be honest, I consider my very sordid past a blessing; if only because it made my wonderful present - and my bright future - possible! — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying ... and God knowing should count for something. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

If every time you call him you simply get his voice mail, and every time he calls you he wants to come over and "chill" at your place
admit it; you're just a jump-off. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

One of the best reasons for eating alone is the assurance that you will enjoy the company. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

To call you my critic is to call you my friend. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I honestly can't believe how people can think they can do dirt and not get dirty.

And for those slinging mud ...take a look at your hands. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

If I'm right
and I know that you know I right
I'm not going to continue going back and forth with you about it.
Why should I waste time arguing with idiots? — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

Once we were in love,
So I know it's true, the saying:
True love never ends
For as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more
Now that we are friends — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I've never, ever, ever
in my entire life
fought over a man.
I've fought women who've hit me because of a man, but then I was fighting to bust her ass, not defend his. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Olofi made Oya ... and then he realized he'd done and quickly made Oshun. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I don't think bad people realize they're bad people. I bet they think they're good people who occasionally do bad.
Which begs the question ... how much bad can a good person do before being considered bad? — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I've been young & dumb, and if I were never called out on it I would now be older and dumber. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I'm not really crazy about all this tit-for-tat stuff. I'm always asked to be the one to first give up the tit. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

As a researcher at US Berkeley I used to go into the brains of small, little animals and study the way that brains were connected and how little did I know that one day that was going to be my future - exploring the universe of the brain and hold it in between my hands and look at cells migrating. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

It feels good to know that if I died tomorrow I would have absolutely no regrets about things I wanted to do in life but did not try. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving.
That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

No, I'm not in a bad mood. Why do you ask? You think I need to be in a bad mood to let you know I think you're an idiot? — Karen E. Quinones Miller

If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are always working in the brain, my feet are controlling everything. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

How can you think it's cool when he calls you his bitch, but then get upset when he treats you like a dog? — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Some folks pray on it. Me? I write about it. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

What's the point in living if you're not really going to live? Time's limited - choose to enjoy yourself. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Life it too short to deal with crazy people. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

The opiate scourge might never have spread as quickly had these rural areas where it all started possessed a diversity of small retailers, whose owners had invested their lives in their stores, knew the addicts personally, and stood ready to defend against them. Walmart allowed junkie shoplifters to play Santa to the pill economy, filling dealers' orders for toys and presents in exchange for dope. — Sam Quinones

If he mistreated and abused his last girlfriend, why would you want to be his new girlfriend? — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Unwilling to give in to that possibility, I keep going, holding on fiercely to the belief that I can make it. Taunts of "you can't" and "who do you think you are?" have never stopped me before, so why should they now? — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

I wear dresses most of the time.
If I wore a skirt or pants my panties would show because of all the people pulling at my hem wanting something from me. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

If you have to call the police on your man, then you'd better choices. If not, what have you taught him? Better him in jail this time rather than you in the morgue the next time. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I don't know what I'd do if for some reason I was no longer able to write. Commit murder, perhaps.
At the very least, torture and mayhem. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

I hear hate. I hear people who clearly don't have a great understanding of the American dream. That the American dream is based on hard work and dedication, determination, resilience, excitement, mentorship, help and love for each other. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa