Retineri Quotes & Sayings

Scared is scared of things you like. — Asa

Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

The barn was dark from the storm, and we couldn't find the harness, which no one had used in years. Old Jake, who had sprained his good foot falling off a horse and was hobbling around worse than ever, started getting panicky at the idea of the dam giving out and washing away the cattle, but I told him to hush his mouth. We all knew what was at stake, and if we were going to save the ranch, we needed clear heads. — Jeannette Walls

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. — Lloyd Alexander

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books. — Emma Donoghue

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them. — Sherry Argov

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive. — Jack Welch

Visions and words go together only when inspirations connects them! — Rossana Condoleo

It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there! — Chaske Spencer

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit. — Karl Popper

How am I? If we grumble at sickness, God won't grant us death,' replied Platon, and at once resumed the story he had begun. — Leo Tolstoy

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying. — Stephen Chbosky