Riitta Quotes & Sayings

I thought that you could not make a commitment until you were truly in love. What I know now is that you cannot love truly until you have made a commitment. — Kate Kerrigan

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school. — Kris Allen

There are four types of husbands.
The husband who always wants to stay in in the evening, has no vices and works for a salary. Totally undesirable!
The atavistic master whose mistress one is, to wait on his pleasure. This sort always considers every pretty woman "shallow," a sort of peacock with arrested development.
Next comes the worshiper, the idolaters of his wife and all that is his, to the utter oblivion of everything else. This sort demands an emotional actress for a wife. God! It must be an exertion to be thought righteous!
And Anthony - a temporarily passionate lover with wisdom enough to realize when it has flown and that it must fly. And I want to get married to Anthony. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I want to inform them
that I am not silent
because I have nothing to say.
I am silent
because nobody is listening. — Kelsey Sutton

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding. — Paulo Coelho

Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way ... (Jace) — Cassandra Clare

Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it. — George Herbert

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope

People had huddled back into the old core of the city; and once the suburbs had been looted, they burned. Like Moscow in 1812, acts of God or vandalism: they were no longer wanted, and they burned. — Ursula K. Le Guin

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture. — Gene Luen Yang

The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation. — Tom Brokaw

No one can see the point where the longing is the most concentrated. — Riitta Jalonen

I'm not too big on accessories, but I love my basic black quartz watch from American Apparel. It's a simple piece that goes with my vintage, thrift store chic style. — Wynter Gordon

While [female genital mutilation] may have not originated with Islam, it has become an integral part of the religious practice in many regions tied to notions of male dominance and control of female sexuality. — Darrel Ray

How often the priest had heard the same confession
Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization
it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt. — Graham Greene