Top 100 Quotes About Rafael
#1. I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
Juan Manuel Marquez
#2. In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation ... the essence of minstrel.
John Trudell
#3. What's so ludicrous about Rafael wanting to travel?'
'He has a life here. He's a Bancroft, for God's sake.'
'I believe he thinks he's already explored that aspect of his life to death, Quinlan.
Suzanne Enoch
#4. Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.
Andre Vltchek
#5. But the thing is that I'm in love with Rafael's story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael's journal, it's as if I can see myself. It's better than a mirror.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#6. Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.
Jacob Young
#7. On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.
Bjorn Borg
#8. Oh, sweet Jesus, English, I'm in love with you! Isn't that reason enough to marry me and put me out of my misery? - Rafael pg 451
Shirlee Busbee
#9. Rafael possessed unfathomable strength. His speed defied the laws of nature...and his bite, good God, his bite. How could something so macabre feel so pleasurable?
Brooklyn Ann
#10. I always knew you were unworthy of my Johnny. You couldn't even provide him with an heir!" Before Cassandra could reply, a shadow fell over them both. "You should leave now, madam, before I throw you out," Rafael Villar told her in a low voice.
Brooklyn Ann
#11. I don't know what you're talking about. I just like animals," Rafael said. "So does Sky, except he's kind of a hippie soulbonder about it.
Rose Christo
#12. You should know that Rafael is not the beast he would have you believe he is. He may be harsh, but he is fair. However, I highly recommend that you endeavor to be on his good side."
She raised a brow. "Does he have one?
Brooklyn Ann
#13. He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
the ball. I just like watching him hit.
Jorge Posada
#14. Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind,
Rod Laver
#15. I was shaking when our lips parted and he leaned his forehead against mine, his fingers carding through my hair, my hands on his face.
"I won't let them," Rafael said. "I won't let anyone take you away. I'll protect you. I'll always protect you. I don't care how. I just will.
Rose Christo
#17. Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.
Will Eisner
#18. Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
Paul Cezanne
#20. I sent Hal and Rafael to keep an eye on you, and I went to check on a commercial account in Whitehorse. Rafael called to tell me Lula went in with a rocket launcher, so I skipped Whitehorse. I pulled into the lot seconds before you destroyed Billings Foods.
Janet Evanovich
#21. What is it with you and that book?"
Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#22. I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#23. Her Squire, Celena, Ms. Blood Rite, I-kill-anything-that-breaks-formation, is on her way over here to have a word with you. Since Celena isn't real big on conversation, I'm taking that as a euphemism for 'kick your ass.' (Rafael)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. What do I do? (Jeff)
Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, but ... run, Forrest, run. (Rafael)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead."
"Ding dong, the witch is dead,
Laurell K. Hamilton
#26. I don't know how your dad could have left you alone, anyway," Rafael said indignantly. "It's obvious you're the coolest person on the planet.
Rose Christo
#27. Jets center Nick Mangold honors murdered NYPD police officers Rafael Ramos (below, l.) and Wenjian Liu by wearing NYPD cap before game against Patriots Sunday. USA TODAY
Anonymous
#28. I felt my cell phone buzz, and I looked at the screen. Ranger.
"Your GPS just went blank," Ranger said when I answered.
"The car exploded." There was a beat of silence.
"Rafael won the pool," Ranger said. "Are you okay?"
"Yes."
"I'll send someone.
Janet Evanovich
#29. There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. But I want to stay here. (Jeff)
And people in hell want ice water and if you don't go to the boat, you'll probably be able to take it to them in person in about twenty minutes. (Rafael)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. No matter what you do, be excellent at it." Rafael
Suanne Laqueur
#32. It's a sociological law that the more information you give people, the more government policy becomes dependent on public opinion.' Those were the words of Rafael Safarov,
Archie Brown
#33. Life's to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love's to rare to squnder it with petty concerns. The Apolloite groom to Rafael
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. The Daimons could, in theory, shoot you until you're too weakened to fight them and then behead you. (Celena)
Want to put a cone around my head like a dog to make sure they can't decapitate me while we're at it? (Rafael)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.
Michael Ondaatje
#36. Her husband, Rafael, who'd left her and who'd contributed not one penny to his children's welfare, was a fool of such dimensions that he should have been required to dress like a jester, complete with silly hat and curled-toe shoes.
Dean Koontz
#37. Yes, my name is Seamus - pronounced SHAY-mus - Rafael Goldberg. Try being five with that name.
Bill Konigsberg
#38. We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
Baba Kalyani
#39. If Gabriel is an ambassador, if Michael is a general, if Rafael is a healer and spiritual champion, then Uriel is a spymaster - Heaven's spook.
Jim Butcher
#40. But it would be safer for you to patrol Starkville first and then head back this way. (Celena)
And I was a pirate who laughed as he died and spat in the face of my killer. Safety's not my concern. (Rafael)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#41. I can't kill him." Celena
"You can do it baby." Rafeal
"You told me just last night that you wanted to choke the life out of me." Rafael
That was for hogging the remote, and I wasn't serious. This is entirely different." Celena
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. Some dumbass outside the reserve thinks you're wearing a butterfly on your arm, you'll get your ass kicked, Rafael said.
Rose Christo
#43. You're a good man. (Rafael)
I guess we'll see in about five years, huh? If I die peacefully, then I'm good. If not, then we'll face each other again as predators. (Apollite)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home in Barcelona and family in Barcelona to come to Liverpool shows how much faith I have in Rafael Benitez.
Luis Garcia
#45. I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
Rafael Nadal
#46. I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
Rafael Nadal
#47. If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.
Rafael Nadal
#48. A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach-ache is quite another.
Rafael Sabatini
#49. I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period,
Rafael Palmeiro
#50. What is essential to the condition of plurality is this fine balance between similarity and dissimilarity among the partners of the exchange.
Rafael A. Calvo
#51. Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.
Rafael Nadal
#52. I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
Rafael Nadal
#53. I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
Rafael Nadal
#54. The American Gun movement is actually very easy to understand. All of them, little boys with self esteem issues, exacerbated by an ever-present gun/phallic relation disorder. Apparently big guns fit well in small hands.
T. Rafael Cimino
#55. I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
Rafael Nadal
#56. Books aren't easy. If you want easy, watch the fucking movie.
T. Rafael Cimino
#57. Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
Rafael Yglesias
#58. Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.
Rafael Sabatini
#59. I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.
Rafael Nadal
#60. Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Rafael Vinoly
#61. And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.
Rafael Sabatini
#62. If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.
Rafael Benitez
#63. If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.
Rafael Benitez
#64. I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
Rafael Nadal
#65. If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please.
Rafael Correa
#67. In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
Rafael Nadal
#68. As a manager you are important sometimes and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me the special one.
Rafael Benitez
#69. I always train like a family. Antonio Rodrigo is like my mentor. He helped me a lot. He's always there with me. My coaches and I have made a strategy for this fight.
Rafael Cavalcante
#70. I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
Rafael Nadal
#71. The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#72. To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
Rafael Yglesias
#73. I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
Rafael Nadal
#74. I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you but you have to enjoy your game.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#75. In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.
Rafael Nadal
#76. Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.
Rafael Soriano
#77. It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
Rafael Yglesias
#78. How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.
Rafael Cruz
#79. I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
Rafael Palmeiro
#80. You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.
Rafael Sabatini
#81. Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
Rafael Moneo
#82. I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
Rafael Palmeiro
#84. There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
Rafael Palmeiro
#86. My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
Rafael Nadal
#87. Take your time, now,' said Mr. Blood. 'I never knew speed made by overhaste.
Rafael Sabatini
#88. I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
Rafael Nadal
#89. I play each point like my life depends on it.
Rafael Nadal
#90. Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist
Rafael Cruz
#91. He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche)
Rafael Sabatini
#92. Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.
Rafael Palmeiro
#93. The first point is always important, more so in a Wimbledon final
Rafael Nadal
#95. I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.
Rafael Nadal
#96. At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
Rafael Moneo
#97. I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.
Rafael Correa
#99. From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea.
Rafael Sabatini
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