Riverstone Holdings Quotes & Sayings

I thought you didn't believe in marriage."
"A man who never contradicts himself must become horribly bored with his own conversation. Oh, on the whole I don't believe in it, except when there is genuine love, which is such a compound of affection, warmth, ease, esteem, and various other spices and condiments rarer than powdered hen's teeth that one hardly expects to come across it once in a lifetime. — Jude Morgan

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult. — Darby Stanchfield

Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be. — Margaret Mitchell

Eternally the embers glow masterfully fueled by lovers passion. — Truth Devour

Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel. — Hilary Mantel

The details were saccharine, but they could not obscure the force and beauty of the painting. — Teju Cole

You may not have spent years meditating or received instruction from all the best teachers in all the various philosophical schools. That does not mean you can't open your heart to the world and make a difference. You don't have to wait until you're enlightened. You don't have to ask anyone's permission. You just have to offer yourself, as you are, and allow your vulnerable heart to transform the world. — Lodro Rinzler

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble. — William Safire

The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture. — Ravi Zacharias

John Kerry now getting slammed by the Republicans because of a botched joke he did about President Bush and Iraq in a recent speech. Kerry was stunned about this. He said, 'What? People are listening to my speeches?' — Jay Leno

She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith. — Hillary Jordan

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year. — E.W. Howe

My old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed — Cassandra Clare

My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way. — Judy Blume

I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It's so unsexual and so liberating ... — Helen Mirren