Rippie Border Quotes

#1. People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

William J. Clinton

#2. You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

Bob Dylan

#3. Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

Kristin Armstrong

#4. Awkward. Sorry."
"Don't be," Sadie said. "I'll rather enjoy bashing my brother's face in.

Rick Riordan

#5. Lovers jump into bed without thinking. It's the only way it can be done.

Marty Rubin

#6. Books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.

Lawrence Durrell

#7. If someone talks trash, you can just trash them back. Clamming up in a corner makes the thing half your fault."
"[ ... ] There are people out there who get crushed by that logic.

Natsuki Takaya

#8. I just want to be entertained. The stories that have aged the best are the ones where the wolf eats grandma, or the woman is going to bake children in an oven, or the bear is going to eat the girl for eating the porridge. There are lessons in there, but they're deeply engrained and hidden.

Drew Daywalt

#9. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Joseph Joubert

#10. I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

Jess Walter

#11. And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

Marie Antoinette

#12. So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.

Richard Branson

#13. The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Jay McInerney

#14. Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

Meg Whitman