Rubirosa Quotes

#1. Porfirio Rubirosa.

Junot Diaz

#2. I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

Ty Cobb

#3. O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

William Shakespeare

#4. Don't you realize how I adore you? ... But I couldn't steal the life of a girl when I wanted a woman's love. I wanted you to have a choice, not an infatuation.

Elizabeth Hunter

#5. And so a ghost of him had been created by her hatred and her rage. It was fading, yet it still stalked her, even here in the safe hallways of her own domain.

Anne Rice

#6. Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

James Madison

#7. I will risk everything to avoid being bored.

Porfirio Rubirosa

#8. Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and ... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Gustav Freytag

#9. There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Charles Dudley Warner

#10. To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

Jim Wallis

#11. Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

Bob Hope

#12. When I returned in the next stage of life, I wish to return as Lailah Gifty Akita.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Obviously, I can't perform; admittedly, I'm terrible.

Courtney Solomon

#14. The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life.

Porfirio Rubirosa

#15. Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.

Raul Julia

#16. Having a plan made me feel better,so when I walked into my room to find Jack sitting on my bed flipping through my pink journal,I didn't even yell at him.
Much.
Once I finished smacking him over the head with said journal,I put away my school stuff and pulled on a warmer coat.

Kiersten White

#17. It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

Douglas Adams

#18. You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [ ... ] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali