Retaguardia Quotes & Sayings

Ninety percent of success come from the choices you make; the other ten percent comes from persistence. — Debasish Mridha

Saying thanks to the world, and acknowledging your own accomplishments, is a great way to feel good and stay positive. — Rachel Robins

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet. — Richard Branson

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind. — Philip Wylie

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself - one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad. It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred. When he moaned and sobbed, it was with the pain of living that was of old the pain of his wild fathers, and the fear and mystery of the cold and dark that was to them fear and mystery. — Jack London

We all had our secrets, and maybe the most terrible of them was that we weren't exactly who we thought we were, who we said we were, who we dreamed of being, that we were divided and at war and half made of self-mythologies, too. Sometimes on that staircase spiraling up from the darkness, we met ourselves coming up into the light, not recognizing ourselves or what we might do next. — Michael Paterniti

Nothing succeeds like reports of success. — Sue Sanders

In my mind the river flows both ways. Forward, to the explanation of things; to a destination which will justify the agonies of travel. And back, back to a time when the river was real, and those who wandered along its banks had little interest in visions. — Clive Barker

Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents — Isaac Bonewits

She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke
"Is it really you?"
Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed?
The man nodded.
His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches.
It is. — Markus Zusak

We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways. — Bram Stoker

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?' — Marya Hornbacher

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming. — Buzz Aldrin

But "almost done" is not done! — Israelmore Ayivor