Contrina Ratliff Quotes

#1. Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

Horace Mann

#2. Good will starts out fat and sweet
as tub butter and turns slowly rancid.
It must be made again daily
if we want it fresh.

Marge Piercy

#3. Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Henri Poincare

#4. Biker chicks want the bad boy.

Theo Rossi

#5. The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

Mitch Daniels

#6. I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.

Brice Marden

#9. Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history ... You spoil both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

Marissa Meyer

#11. I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results.

Francois Hollande

#12. Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

Gail Sheehy

#13. Loving God is a play scenario written in the spirit of men

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Mosca had come armed with a rich pack of lies, ready to pick whichever seemed to suit Goshawk's mood best. Under the wintry draught of his gaze, however, she felt most of them wither away in her hands.

Frances Hardinge