Aunt Rachel Quotes

#1. Aunt Rachel says tahat the universe is always trying to speak to us, and that the universe doesn't waste time speaking about things that aren't within our direct power to influence or change. But if that's true, the universe needs a better signal.

Sarah Ockler

#2. They'd had to empty their pockets and turn over Aunt Val's purse to the security guard. That way, I wouldn't be tempted to try to kill anyone with her lip gloss and her travel-size pack of tissues.

Rachel Vincent

#3. Keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it's just a nice fantasy in your head

Travis Kalanick

#4. Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

Carol S. Dweck

#5. Houses are like boats," Aunt May had sniffed. "They should always keep their original names.

Rachel Hawkins

#6. Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

Anton Chekhov

#7. My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren't glitter, well, that only left one other option.

Rachel Vincent

#8. What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

John Vaillant

#9. Crossing the room, he stopped infront of me. "I'm not going to bite."
"That's good."
"Unless you want me to," He said with a devilish grin.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

Mardy Grothe

#11. Negative thinking keeps us from enjoying life.

John C. Maxwell

#12. Aunt May, my sweet Aunt May, who taught me how to knit, who bought me a piece of candy every time we went to the store, jabbed a cocktail fork at my eye.

Rachel Hawkins

#13. But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.

Rachel Vincent

#14. Harmony glanced to her left, and my gaze followed hers to the living room, where my aunt had died, my cousin had been restored, and I'd whacked a psychotic grim reaper with a cast-iron skillet.
Weirdest. Tuesday. Ever.

Rachel Vincent

#15. Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

Rachel Higginson

#16. Now before I work out, I think, 'I love exercise,' and it works.

Ashley Tisdale

#17. Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

Amy Poehler

#18. I noticed nearly everyone had a cup of Aunt Jewel's punch. It was the weirdest thing to me how everyone openly acknowledged that it was terrible, but kept drinking it anyway. Manners in action, I guess.

Rachel Hawkins

#19. I spent most of this weekend sitting on the sofa reading Proust. The only time my mother left her studio, which she locked behind her, was to go to Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's house.

Rachel Klein

#20. I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

Max Lucado