Run The Year Tracker Quotes & Sayings

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of
so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits. — Laura Esquivel

Why couldn't I have puppy love? I only seem to have "I can't decide if I want to rip your throat out or kiss you" love. Ugh. — Andrea Cremer

When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages. — Joyce Banda

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art. — Walter Savage Landor

- I'm searching, I'm searching. I'm trying to understand. Trying to give what I've lived to somebody else and I don't know to whom, but I don't want to keep what I lived. I don't know what to do with what I lived, I'm afraid of that profound disorder. I don't trust what happened to me. Did something happen to me that I, because I didn't know how to live it, lived as something else? That's what I'd like to call disorganization, and I'd have the confidence to venture on, because I would know where to return afterward: to the previous organization. I'd rather call it disorganization because I don't want to confirm myself in what I lived - in the confirmation of me I would lose the world as I had it, and I know I don't have the fortitude for another. — Clarice Lispector

I want to be happy. To make someone else happy. To do my job well, be a good person — Harriet Evans

That would probably scare her off but good. — Christy Barritt

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want. — Oprah Winfrey

I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches. — Sarah Addison Allen

He was astonished to discover that I actually preferred the Special Edition version of the original Star Wars trilogy. He shook his head, eyes widened in mock horror. "I can't even - " "Oh c'mon. Three words: better special effects." His expression grew dead serious. "Three words: Greedo shoots first." I grimaced. "Okay, you have a point there, but I'm not going to change my mind just because of that one little thing - " "One little thing?!" His mouth dropped. "That one moment changed the entire characterization of Han Solo. — Brenna Aubrey

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. — Regina Brett

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. — Imogen Cunningham

Any nation which claims that this [North Atlantic] treaty is directed against it should be reminded of the Biblical admonition that 'The guilty flee when no man pursueth. — Dean Acheson

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. — Alexandre Dumas

Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity. — Andrew Tan