Ravagnani Joseph Quotes & Sayings

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time. — Twyla Tharp

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it. — Rand Paul

I will not make you a pastrami, banana bread, cottage cheese sandwich! That would severely ruin my reputation. — Mitch Hedberg

Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times. — Roy Orbison

But mostly, I remembered what I've always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it's your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid?
Gotta go with stupid.
It's not the easy way out. Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that's tough. — Katherine Applegate

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it. — Yann Martel

As the day progressed, it became evident that I would eat better on this period of punishment from Mott than I'd eaten yet since coming to Farthenwood.
Tobias snuck me back better than half of his breakfast, and Errol left some food in my room while cleaning up, expressing false dismay after I ate it that "it was food intended for somebody else."
We were to remain in our room in private study because of Princess Amarinda being in the house, but after lunch was brought to us, Tobias gave me all of his lunch and Roden shared half. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

Shasta was dreadfully frightened. But it suddenly came into his head, If you funk this, you'll funk every battle all your life. Now or never. — C.S. Lewis

God's gifts aim at making us into generous givers, not just fortunate receivers. God gives so that we, in human measure, can be givers too. — Miroslav Volf

Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film. — Graham Moore