Uncooked Rice Quotes

#1. And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions in her, and high among them would be loyalty.

Anne Perry

#2. I am selfish, father? Because I will not become the thing I despise?"
"And narrow, Philips, to despise what you do not know."
"I am to be a painted popinjay! I tell you, sir, Cleone may take me as I am!"
"Or leave you as you are," said Sir Maurice gently.

Georgette Heyer

#3. The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought.

John Dos Passos

#4. I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.

Nicole Sobon

#7. What will people remember us for? Are other people's lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest the gifts and abilities God gave us? Did we give our best effort, and did we do it for the right reasons?

Tony Dungy

#8. Aw, dad... this isn't another one of those "oh, you're LUCKY you didn't have to peck dry corn and uncooked rice off the dirt!" kind of thing is it?

Gerry Alanguilan

#9. I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.

Alex Zanardi

#10. unrequited love is like
kneeling on uncooked rice
and waiting for
the boiling water
of his kisses
to soften the pain
but he never comes.

K.Y. Robinson

#11. We aim at experience in the particular centres in which alone it is evil. We avoid classification. We do not deny it. But when a man is classified something is lost.

T. S. Eliot

#12. It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

John Henry Newman

#13. Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.

Eric Maskin

#14. Filters are for cigarrettes and coffee," Simon muttered under his breath as they went inside. "Two things I could use right now, incidentally.

Cassandra Clare