Honorata Quotes

#1. Honorata's story reminds me of the extraordinary power of the human spirit to withstand almost anything. Her story also speaks to the power of service, to living a life of purpose, and to keeping the flame of hope alive. (175)

Jacqueline Novogratz

#2. silence is golden

Mary Corcoran

#3. I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Natasha Lyonne

#4. To the eye of failure success is an accident.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. I don't need to read the whole book, Prudence, to know how I feel about it. I knew you were the one ever since I read the first chapter..

Hilaria Alexander

#6. Meet your people where they are. They may not be as good as they can be, but they are as good as they believe they can be. They are waiting for you to lead them.

Susan C. Foster

#7. Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.

Donald Johanson

#8. Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute degree; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall'd the crimes of fate.

Homer

#9. Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

Gregory Peck

#11. Ants are a curious race

Robert Frost

#12. Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.

Mark Tooley

#13. Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

Bob Dylan

#14. Hurt of this magnitude is like menopause," Phyllis tells me. I've just wiped my nose with one of the hats. She takes it from me and hands me a tissue. "Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can't take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.

Tarryn Fisher