Roiphe Free Quotes & Sayings

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question. — Annabelle Selldorf

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. — Noam Chomsky

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub

If you'll but be mine, your heart will forever be sheltered in my care. Yes, we will quarrel incessantly and fight for dominance. And yes, there will be ravishes of passion, but there will also be gentle lulls. That is who we are together. You'll never need fear that your love is not reciprocated. For — A.G. Howard

Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I couldn't see straight. If it was golf, I wanted to beat everybody's brains out. If it was driving, I can get there faster'n you can. It's not anybody's fault, I guess. I was stubborn as hell. I had no direction. — John Daly

How cruel my suffering is, - no one is more talkative than I am! — Georges Bataille

Each member of the body is immersed in Christ and carries God's presence. So I can experience the expression of the invisible God in the lives of my brothers. I can be comforted by God through a brother, and I can serve God by serving a brother. As Christ's life flows through the members of His Body, we are linked to each other not only to receive grace directly from the lord but also through the lives of other brothers with whom we cultivate relationships in Christ. — Ricardo De Paula Meneghelli

I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes. — Brian Baumgartner

To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible. — Thomas Merton

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me. — Julia Quinn

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. — Theodore Roosevelt

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write. — Barbara Tuchman

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success. — Buddy Ebsen

I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty. — Karin Slaughter