Ribassos Quotes & Sayings

If you want to write books to get famous, the books will suck.Write books to tell the story you want to tell and for no other reason. — Lori Lesko

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back. — Marya Hornbacher

Although God allows the world to use His great wealth in order that their physical and material needs be met, it is not God's will for the devil's children to control all the money that is in the world. — Paul Silway

In every one of these cases, the police ignored the suspect's tentative and mealymouthed expressions of interest in a lawyer, persisted in their questioning, and successfully managed to get him to make some damaging statements (not necessarily a confession) that could be used to help convict him, and the courts concluded that such statements were admissible against the suspect because he had not made a clear and unequivocal request for a lawyer. — James Duane

Where there is love, there is no need.
Where there is need, there is suffering. — Frederick Espiritu

Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that? — Shannon Leto

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The entire life of the human soul is mere motions in the shadows. We live in a twilight of consciousness, never in accord with whom we are or think we are. Everyone harbours some kind of vanity, and there's an error whose degree we can't determine. We're something that goes on during the show's intermission; sometimes, through certain doors, we catch a glimpse of what may be no more than scenery. The world is one big confusion, like voices in the night. — Fernando Pessoa

You can give your life meaning.' She stroked my forehead from the center to the temples, with just her fingertips. 'We all can. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over. — Libba Bray

But for me, to experience life through mere reason is to feel about in the dark for God's face while wearing heavy gloves. It is not enough only to study and depict and describe. One must sometimes . . . leap. — Elizabeth Gilbert

F you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing. — Bill Shankly

I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I'd love to be Brian McKnight. — Justin Guarini

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness - she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. — Homer