Rogene Laut Quotes

#1. You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

Wilbert Rideau

#2. The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#3. Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#4. I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

Iris Apfel

#5. I can't go on like this, I told myself. And You can't possibly want me to feel this way, I demanded of God. God didn't argue. Forced to choose between my nostalgia for the faith of my childhood and my dignity as an adult, I put down the doll and drove away.

Joanna Brooks

#6. Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. I'm getting less and less interested in the problems of youth. I'm much more interested in the idea of emotional paralysis, and I find myself less interested in work that doesn't have anything to do with a conversation about the world.

Anna D. Shapiro

#8. My parents kept me very grounded.

Danielle De Niese

#9. The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

Courtney Summers