Rabattenbos Quotes & Sayings

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good — Gretchen Rubin

I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country. — Ann Veneman

You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we'd be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren't true. They're useless. But that's not the way we work. — Paul Bloom

They'd come to the Ice Court scurrying like rats. Live or die, they were going out like an army. — Leigh Bardugo

One year, on Yom Kippur eve, Salanter did not show up in synagogue for services. The congregation was extremely worried; they could only imagine that their rabbi had suddenly taken sick or been in an accident. In any case, they would not start the service without him. During the wait, a young woman in the congregation became agitated. She had left her infant child at home asleep in its crib; she was certain she would only be away a short while. Now, because of the delay, she slipped out to make sure that the infant was all right. When she reached her house, she found her child being rocked in the arms of Rabbi Salanter. He had heard the baby crying while walking to the synagogue and, realizing that the mother must have gone off to services, had gone into the house to calm him. — Joseph Telushkin

Most of the time with video games, you're recording by yourself. — Roger Craig Smith

I once read a survey that explained how moving is as traumatic as divorce, or as the death of a parent. — S.K. Tremayne

When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would. — Julian Schnabel

Politics is not my cup of tea. I would like to focus on research and education, and will also work to help start-up ecosystem. — Kris Gopalakrishnan

Afternoon tea needn't stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense. How much more we enjoy life when the pretenses are discarded! — Paul F. Kortepeter

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.. — Steve Lopez