Melora Rivera Quotes

#1. It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.

Charles Dickens

#2. You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something.

Tim Cahill

#3. The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Charlie Munger

#4. Happiness had a pungent scent, like the sourest lime or lemon. Broken hearts smelled surprisingly sweet. Sadness filled the air with a salty, sea-like redolence; death smelled like sadness. People carried their own distinct personal fragrances.

Leslye Walton

#5. Our country cannot be truly blessed if God does not become the head of the society

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

Saadi

#7. Book clubs are totally dope - like English class if you were allowed to read only books that you actually like and snack and sip while discussing them.

Sam Maggs

#8. I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

Mike Lee

#9. You fail because you fear. Be bold. Be fearless.

Debasish Mridha

#10. That's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

Jose Saramago

#11. Dating meant nightclubs, heels, and black. It meant, "No, thank you. Really, I'm full." It meant matching bras and underwear. Clothes with the word MICRO used to describe them.

Stephanie Klein

#12. I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

Anthony Noto

#13. But the truth is that I'm gloomy - gloomier than I ever was during the war. Everything is so broken, Sophie: the roads, the buildings, the people. Especially the people.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#14. I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

Norman Lock

#15. Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities - a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity - but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

Steven Johnson