Rafinesquina Quotes & Sayings

My goal in writing for teens and tweens is to help my audience feel inspired and empowered today, to find their voice today, to believe that they can truly design the life of their dreams ... today. I mean seriously ... why wait? — Deborah Reber

It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need? — Ian McKellen

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot. — George Eliot

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are. — Agnes Martin

You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer. — Steve Jobs

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep. — Isabel Allende

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth. — Wayne Rogers

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me. — Harrison Salisbury

If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning ... and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you. — Henri Nouwen

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. — Jean Piaget

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces. — Anthony Trollope

For finding redemption in love. For finding a second chance in hope. — Pepper Winters