Rosika Quotes

#1. You are pretty, aren't you?"
Rosika frowned. "You don't have to sound so surprised.

Jess Schira

#2. I'd be foolish if I didn't return her interest." He puffed out his chest. "And no one has ever called me a fool."
Rosika's jaw tightened. She rubbed her temples. "I'm giving it some serious consideration.

Jess Schira

#3. I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

Fernando Pessoa

#4. I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Rosika Schwimmer

#5. I'll have the Walk of Shame burrito.

Tracy March

#6. If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons are killed by the millions, let us, mothers, only try to do good by going to the kings and emperors without any other danger than a refusal.

Rosika Schwimmer

#7. Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.

Rosika Schwimmer

#8. I don't know how to give up," he said. "If I did. I would have already, long before I met you. I'm not a man who's ever gonna lay down, Jenna." He paused, and his teeth flashed white in the near dark. "Except maybe for you.

Ellen Connor

#9. Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Mario Puzo

#10. Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

Toni Braxton