Varenos Quotes & Sayings

Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. — Arnold Beisser

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. — Joan Didion

Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking ... ,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something. — Adam Ferrara

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to ... people who mean something special to us. — James De La Vega

Surround yourself with brilliance. — Peter Gabriel

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. — Tony Blair

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. — Rene Thom

As part of an effort to prod college seniors to get tetanus shots, a group of students was given a lecture meant to educate them about the dangers of tetanus and the importance of getting inoculated against it. A large majority of those students reported that they were convinced and planned to get their shots, but in the end only 3 percent got them. Bu another group of students, who were presented with the same lecture, had a 28 percent inoculation rate. The difference? The second group was given a map of the campus and asked to plan their route to the health center and pick a date and time to go. Sometimes, you see, motivation isn't our problem. Rather, we need to identify life's everyday mental obstacles - regret, fatigue, overconfidence, fear, to name just four - and put ourselves into position to hurdle them. — Gary Belsky

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do, or what you have done, but simply because you are — Max Lucado

One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors. — Gabe Newell

The kid scared her sometimes, he was so smart. She wondered where he inherited it. Not from her gene pool, that was for sure. Richard, her first husband and Gabe's father, was smart enough but no genius. She also wondered from time to time whether being so precocious made him an outcast at his private boys' school. It couldn't be easy. — Joseph Finder

So that is why grace found Noah. Not surprisingly the way this worked was evidently the same as the way God's grace works elsewhere in Scripture. There is never any basis we can find in ourselves for God's showing grace to us. It would not then be grace. If that seems unfair, then yes, it is unfair, but it fits with the rest of the way life works. God does not give everyone equal gifts, capacities, and lengths of life. God did not decide to make humanity equal. Life is not fair. The priority in God's mind is not fairness but how we serve God and serve other people with the gifts, capacities, and lengths of life that God gives us. — John E. Goldingay

You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself. — Wynonna Judd

She smiled softly. "What made you change your mind?" "You. — Elizabeth Camden