Japhy Raffia Quotes

#1. She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.

David Quammen

#3. I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

John F. Kerry

#4. If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.

Stephen Malkmus

#5. The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#7. I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

Margaret Mahy

#8. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.

Zooey Deschanel

#9. The people I work with have a very good impression of me for sure, because of how I am.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#10. Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness.
The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

Michael Chabon

#11. The more you choose to focus on the positive, the more positive will come into focus. The choice is yours.

Charles F. Glassman

#12. I smiled and ran my hand through his dark curls. So,
Death, what do we do now?

Abbi Glines

#13. Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.

Elliot Cowan

#14. I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo