Reflejaran Quotes & Sayings

If I did only what I wanted to do, I would not be obedient to the Creator. Sometimes He wants us to do certain things that we may not feel like doing. When it comes to what God asks of us, we need more than good intentions we need to follow through fully. — John Wooden

I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it's dark and you can't see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears? — Ellen DeGeneres

To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing
it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness. — Alan Lee

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose. — Norman Cousins

What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.' — Jason Giambi

When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all die like that? Why so many of them? Why so close together? Why were they all so young? Why, especially, in the kinds of places where we are from? Why would they all die back to back to back to back? I feel like I was writing my way towards an answer in the memoir. — Jesmyn Ward

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow. — Imogen Cunningham

How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery. — Donna Lynn Hope

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved. — Antonya Nelson

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight. — Chris Hughes

pocket. "Tanner," Nathaniel — Rachel Hauck

Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon — Roger Lowenstein

My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself. — Violante Placido