Raiza Contawi Quotes & Sayings

I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told. — Maureen O'Sullivan

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire. — Ernest Hemingway,

Ah! What avails the classic bent
And what the cultured word,
Against the undoctored incident
That actually occurred?
And what is Art whereto we press
Through paint and prose and rhyme-
When Nature in her nakedness
Defeats us every time? — Rudyard Kipling

Sometimes you've gotta stand up for yourself, even when you know you ain't got a chance. — Sara King

I'mjustsayingshe'dbeallright, he mumbled, subsiding. — Tui T. Sutherland

I cupped my hands over my ears. No, no, no. Get out. Get dead. — Devon Monk

Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases. — Fernand Point

A b*tch is a dog, a dog barks, bark is on a tree, a tree is part of nature, nature is beautiful, so when you call me a b*tch ... thanks for the compliment. — Anonymous

It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing. — Jill Davis

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist ... It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door. — Thomas Merton

But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn't dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I'd managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I'd been in years. — Susanna Kaysen

Jehovah-Jireh is a Great provider. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing. — Michel De Montaigne

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden. — Gerald Scarfe

A life is well lived when you are content with your condition and gracious for your possessions. — Debasish Mridha