Rivellese Quotes & Sayings

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past. — Vladimir Nabokov

Once the habit is ingrained and you become the starter, the center of the circle, you will find more and more things to notice, to instigate, and to initiate. Momentum builds and you get better at generating it. If you go to bed at night knowing that people are expecting you to initiate things all day the next day, you'll wake up with a list. And as you create a culture of people who are always seeking to connect and improve and poke, the bar gets raised. What might be considered a board-level decision at one of your competitors' companies gets done as a matter of course. What might be reserved for a manager's intervention gets handled at the customer level, saving you time and money (and generating customer joy). This incredibly prosaic idea, the very simple act of initiating, is actually profoundly transformative. Forward motion is a defensible business asset. — Seth Godin

But then I can't think of anything at all, for his hand has slipped around my waist to pull me toward him. Holding my gaze, his left hand slides gently down my forearm to my fingers. He entwines them with his own and spins me into the center of the floor. — Rae Carson

Fiji, I'm betting you don't drink a lot," he said, trying to suppress a smile.
"I don't," she confessed. "How did you know?"
"Just a lucky guess."
"You think he'd like my phone number?"
"Feej, that guy is tough as nails, and he's not only been around the block, he's run a marathon. He could eat you for breakfast," Olivia said, half smiling.
"And wouldn't that be a great way to wake up?" Fiji said, with a broad wink. Manfred laughed; he couldn't help it. — Charlaine Harris

People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation. — Brooke Fraser

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit. — Robert J. Flaherty

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now. — Don Altman

They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised. — Sherman Austin

To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game. — Tony Dungy

Let them express their anger and hatred; listen to them and smile. — M.F. Moonzajer

My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things. — Tess Gerritsen

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012. — Paul LePage

It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed. — Vance Havner