Mother Maria Skobtsova Quotes

#1. I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

Rick Riordan

#2. A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

Gene Tierney

#3. There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Martha Ostenso

#4. Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now,

Lisa Marie Presley

#5. Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?

Will Schwalbe

#6. I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

Hayley Hasselhoff

#7. I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.

Estelle

#8. Today, say something nice to someone who isn't expecting you to.

Sherise Seven

#9. As we will see in the following pages, peacetime is not always kind to generals and they do not necessarily do well outside their task of generaling. Perhaps that is because during war they become as close to gods on earth as we are ever likely to see. Patton

Winston Groom