Raului Lena Quotes

#1. Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost.

Clarice Lispector

#2. I saw a post the other day, where someone wrote that, when they walk through a library, they touch the spines of all the books they've read , as a way of greeting their favorite characters . . .

Try that with one of my novels, and you'll walk away counting your fingers!

Max Hawthorne

#3. Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

David Scott

#4. No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.

Eric Shinseki

#5. Creative problem solving is not necessarily tantamount to cheating.

V. St. Clair

#6. Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

James Dyson

#7. As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn't yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.

Amber Frey

#8. If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Emma Thompson

#9. Exactly. The most convincing argument doesn't come from pithy sayings or aphorisms, but through stories. A clear line of causality, from one event to the next, that seems to be leading to an inevitable conclusion." "We are fighting our guerrilla war battle by battle.

Edward W. Robertson

#10. Sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.

James Redfield

#11. People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

Michael J. Fox

#12. Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

Gore Vidal