Ratejna Quotes & Sayings

SUCCESS is getting what you want, but HAPPINESS is wanting what you get. — Various

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? — Don DeLillo

Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked. — Jerry Stahl

He could barely stand, the Captain, but he kept on going. Shukhov had an old horse like that at home once. He took good care of that old horse, but he worked himself to death. And then they skinned the hide off him. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This is insane. You realize that, right?"
"Only if someone gets hurt."
"Someone always gets hurt, Hayes."
He said nothing as he slid his fingers in between mine, squeezing my hand. The intimacy of the gesture threw me. I had not held a man's hand since Daniel's, and Hayes's felt foreign. Large, smooth, capable; the coolness of an unexpected ring.
I shifted in my skirt, legs sticking to the leather cushion. I needed to get out of there, and yet I did not want it to end. — Robinne Lee

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different. — Mike Binder

When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of God. There was fruitfulness and joy in it, and it followed the Creator's own plan for continuing the human race. — Naomi Ragen