Mireya Mayor Quotes

#1. I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

Emily Giffin

#2. Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto Von Bismarck

#3. My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

David Platt

#4. We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

Judith Butler

#5. A budding fashionista even at four, I would capture the little lizards and latch them, still living, onto my earlobes as earrings. Most girls wouldn't touch them, I thought they completed the outfit.

Mireya Mayor

#6. You plan and plan and plan then Africa happens

Mireya Mayor

#7. Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Ani DiFranco

#8. I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.

Carew Papritz

#9. When my mother went to university to become a therapist she learned that suffering, even though it may have happened a long time ago, is something that is passed from one generation to the next to the next, like flexibility or grace or dyslexia.

Miriam Toews

#10. If you want a great replacement, like, who can follow Barack and still have that swag, that charisma, that charm and be historic - I think it would be Tina Fey for president.

Hasan Minhaj

#11. No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

C. JoyBell C.

#12. I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'

Mireya Mayor

#13. A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those titles have been very successful and interesting to watch. Any time anyone refers to any of those great shows, I'm flattered.

Marie Avgeropoulos

#14. Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

Jeff Cooper

#15. We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.

Whitney Johnson