Rona Quotes & Sayings

Any reform of that fundamental nature, potentially constitutional, it has to go to the people. It has to be a be a referendum, and that's why it was a plebiscite in all of the provinces in which it's been attempted. — Rona Ambrose

I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail. — Rona Barrett

World Peace Begins At Home — Rona Renner

To tell the truth she was quite thrilled to be working at the very source of a magazine which helped build up much of her present misinformation. — Rona Jaffe

Currently, without scientific evidence demonstrating safety or effectiveness, we continue to urge Canadians against the use of these e-cigarettes. We have heard that e-cigarettes may be a gateway for teens to begin smoking, while also having the potential to serve as a smoking cessation tool. Today, I am asking the Standing Committee on Health to undertake a thorough study on e-cigarettes and provide a report. — Rona Ambrose

A heart consumed by bitterness turns to stone. — Rona V Flynn

This is an issue that women are not interested in debating. — Rona Ambrose

Boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces. — Rona Jaffe

If you practise deceit it will burrow down into dark places and change you.

Spoken by Boaz to his daughter, Star. — Rona V Flynn

Rona of the hurting heart. We've all had one of those. We have all picked at the seal of things that have been closed against us, and locked. — Susan Fletcher

But she knew that, despite their best intentions, people reached a point beyond which they could not return but could only hope for a safe landing. — Rona Jaffe

I continue to hear concerns from health professional organizations that dried marijuana is not an approved drug or medicine in Canada. They want clearer guidance on safety and effectiveness and want authorizations to be monitored. That is why I asked Health Canada to consult with provincial and territorial regulatory bodies, companies licensed to produce marijuana and other professional organizations to enhance information-sharing on how doctors and nurse practitioners are authorizing the use of marijuana. — Rona Ambrose

I'm really a pussycat - with an iron tail. — Rona Barrett

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles. — Rona Barrett

Bringing you 'raisins and almonds' and words (from a Yiddish lullaby — Rona Simmons

What are this blind dates?' he asked curiously .
'An old American institution of mismating. — Rona Jaffe

She had a collection of matchbooks from extravagant places, dropped here and there on tables in the dingy apartment she still shared with Gregg. They made it look as if she lived a gay, mad life. What a typical picture for anyone from out of New York: career girl's apartment, stockings drying over the shower rod, clothes flung helter-skelter in the rush to get to the office on time, to a date on time, a bottle of wine there too, wads of dust lying under the studio couch because you couldn't clean except weekends and sometimes not even then, and all those brightly colored matchbooks with names of well-known eating places, so that even if one managed only two good and sufficient meals a week one could still light one's cigarettes for the rest of the week with the memory. — Rona Jaffe

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be
the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards. — Rona Barrett

...they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content. — Rona Jaffe

She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night. — Rona Jaffe

You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will. — Rona Jaffe

Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada. — Rona Ambrose

Anyone has a right to make a fool of herself if she's really in love," Caroline said. "There aren't any laws. But you have to realize everyone else does it too, and forgive yourself. That is a law."

"Whose law?"

"Caroline's law," Caroline said.

"Do you really believe that?" April asked softly.

"I have to. I try to, that is. — Rona Jaffe

I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be. — Rona Ambrose

Which is bigger? A baby eagle or a giant crow? — Rona Barrett

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. — Rona Barrett

We keep making decisions, every day, half without thinking, half against our will. If we don't fight back, if we allow ourselves to change, to be changed, then once it's done we have to do other things, and on and on until the person we wanted to be is so far away in the past that we only remember her, longingly, as if she were a beloved stranger. — Rona Jaffe

But fathers always thought their youngest daughters were rather special — Rona Jaffe

Audiences like me doing action and comedy. I am a jovial person and have been so from childhood. I like to laugh my way through my work, and that attitude reflects in my roles. Even women hate me doing rona-dhona roles. So I don't do emotional films. — Ravi Teja

For people who have something in the present it is easier to forget the past, although you never wholly do so. When winter comes, spring is a vague memory, something looked back at with nostalgia, but winter is the here and now and requires all your energies. If spring were to vanish and there were nothing, an abyss, if that were even possible to imagine, then you would live with memories of spring for ever and ever or else become a part of the abyss itself. The same can sometimes be said for love, but not always. There are some loves that live on for years, inexplicably, although the lovers are parted and there is no hope that they may ever reunite except as polite and distant friends. — Rona Jaffe

A heart consumed with bitterness will turn to stone.
An old Lightkeepers adage, spoken by Boaz to Luka. — Rona V Flynn

It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, paw over, comment on and enjoy — Rona Jaffe

A blond in a red dress can do without introductions
but not without a bodyguard. — Rona Jaffe

The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm — Rona Jaffe

Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first. — Rona Barrett

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs. — Rona Barrett

Girls always think, "I'm going to be the exception," Caroline thought; it's a weakness of the species, like a collie's tiny brain. — Rona Jaffe

But people had forgotten there was a day in the not too distant past when they'd not seen or heard of bombings, and suicide vests, and snipers. Alicia, though, had not forgotten. — Rona Simmons

body, even for a day. All afternoon and evening, Rona — Emma Prince

I'm again a twelve-year old dreamer, a girl fascinated by an ancient piano and with Rona Lubliner's fingers. — Victoria Avilan

Almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up. — Rona Jaffe

I think there should be some way to find some kind of reasonable accommodation that allows the state to continue to say, you know, that women's rights supersede any kind of a cultural custom that's oppressive to women, but also potentially allows a woman to take the oath, I don't know, in a separate room. It would be up to the court to find some kind of cultural accommodation. — Rona Ambrose

It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all — Rona Jaffe

It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess. — Rona Jaffe

What good was a love affair that ended with the last train to the country, and Christmas presents that had to be given the day before Christmas because holidays were family times, and knowing that you would still be as alone as before because you could never telephone the man you loved when you needed him? — Rona Jaffe

Flour and butter, cream and sugar, words and images -- all the ingredients for a rich, tasty story. — Rona Simmons

A greater sense of do-it-yourself (DIY) politics is exposed by the fact Cascadians are more likely to disagree that "voting is the only way people like me can have a say about how the government runs things" (54 percent disagree versus 37 percent, RoNA). — Douglas Todd