Rowenas Quotes & Sayings

We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so often - because we all have the wrong job description for love. — Glennon Doyle Melton

Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny. — Jeffrey Fry

Men like fun much more than they like clever — Mhairi McFarlane

Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists — Melissa Bradley

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice. — Todd Rundgren

Don't do that to yourself, Spatzchen, Elsa thought. The world is full of Rowenas, women who could cut you to the quick with their cruel appraisals of what they think you are. You have to know your own sacredness in order to endure them. You have to know that you have been created for a reason that has everything to do with what is good and what is righteous. And no one can ever take that away from you. — Kelly O'Connor McNees

It is common to misconceive how checklists function in complex lines of work. They are not comprehensive how-to guides, whether for building a skyscraper or getting a plane out of trouble. They are quick and simple tools aimed to buttress the skills of expert professionals. And — Atul Gawande

I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off. — Cecelia Ahern

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction. — Val McDermid

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that [ "the all-female Ghostbusters" ], because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault. — Paul Feig

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless. — Nirmala Srivastava

There must be a cloud in my head, rain keeps falling from my eyes — Dee Clark

Love is a bitch. — Gayle Forman

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases. — Richard Powers