Regina Jonas Quotes & Sayings

It's the darkness that shows us how bright the light shines. — Bella Raven

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. — Robert Breault

We're constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars. — Joseph J. Ellis

In a sense, one could speak of the secret life of colour. Despite its outward beckoning, like true beauty, colour is immensely hesitant in giving away its secrets. Painters learn to respect the hesitancy of colour and endeavour to refine their skill to become worthy of its revelations. A painter learns the language of colour slowly. As with any language, you struggle for a long time outside the language. There is a willed deliberateness to how you sequence the strange words to make a sentence.Then one day the language lets you in to where the words dance to your thoughts with ease and fluency. Perhaps for the painter there is a day when colour lets him in, when his palette sings with synergy and delight. — John O'Donohue

What is this mania to love someone all one's life ? Why should we? — Jean Anouilh

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it. — Haruki Murakami

The journal preserved her dignity; she might look and behave like and live the life of a trained nurse, but she was really an important writer in disguise. And at a time when she was cut off from everything she knew - family, home, friends - writing was the thread of continuity. It was what she had always done. — Ian McEwan

I'm not the gambling type. I've never understood how some people can get addicted to games in which the probability of losing is so high. They're not stupid people. They know the odds aren't in their favor, yet they risk more than they can possibly afford to lose.
Right now, I think I finally get it.
Losing isn't what drives them. It's the glimmer of that one spectacular win. — Leisa Rayven

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first. — Groucho Marx

Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight. — Camilla Luddington

People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing, ... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that? — Herschel Walker