Raguana Quotes & Sayings

I finished polishing the clock and picked up one of the figurines next to it. It was in the shape of an angel and on the angel's gown were printed the words: ALMIGHTY GOD, GIVE US SERENITY TO ACCEPT WHAT CANNOT BE CHANGED, COURAGE TO CHANGE WHAT SHOULD BE CHANGED, AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE ONE FROM THE OTHER. What if you couldn't do that? Couldn't change things and couldn't accept them, either? I took hold of the angel's head and snapped it off. And then I snapped one wing off, and then the other. I broke his arms off, too, and then I asked him how serene he was feeling now — Jennifer Donnelly

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. — Christopher Dawson

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please. — William Zinsser

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. — G. M. Trevelyan

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous. — Preston Sturges

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong. — Lara St. John

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time. — Dwayne Johnson

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. — Jillian Barberie

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none. — Eric Metaxas

Empty time is not a vacuum to be filled. It is the thing that enables the other things on your mind to be creatively rearranged, like the empty square in the 4 x 4 puzzle that makes it possible to move the other fifteen pieces around. — Harry Lewis

It had been a long time since I'd felt any desire to truly inflict pain upon another person. I tend to take the long view on dealing with irritating people - as in, I'm going to outlive whoever irritates me, so the problem will eventually go away. I had privately changed "This, too, shall pass" into "You, too, shall die," and it helped me avoid all sorts of conflict. — Kevin Hearne

To be of use and to know how to show yourself of use, is to be twice as useful. — Baltasar Gracian

Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'. — Jane Russell