Dina Quotes

In war, villainy and good change hands all the time, like a football. ~ Dina Nayeri

God is still in the miracle working business. He's still the same God yesterday, today and forevermore. ~ Prophetess Dina Rolle

today it is clear that Indigenous peoples everywhere are-and always have been-the miner's canary on a global scale. In a hyper-industrialized, super-exploitative world, what happens to indigenous peoples will eventually happen to everyone. ~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Adversity is not a bad thing~It's a God thing! ~ Prophetess Dina Rolle

I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house. ~ Dina Merrill

Men think we can't do two things at once. They can't, but we can. Women are more resilient. ~ Dina Merrill

One of the greatest lesson is humility. Humility is like oxygen to the soul. You won't get too far without it! ~ Dina Rolle

The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it. ~ Dina Merrill

Be careful with this one" said Dina, bending down to greet the cat. "All cats are half jinn, but I think she's three quarters. ~ G. Willow Wilson

My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.' ~ Dina Powell

Face Book is a tutti - frutti garden. There are all the kinds of fruits here, bitter or sweet, tasteless or sour taste, fresh or rotten fruits, all together mixed in....sweet harmony! ~ Dina Stylianou

I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I'd drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That's when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, I could feel pieces of me leaving. I continued to drink until there was nothing left. Just emptiness. ~ Dina Kucera

I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go on? And then I knew: I wouldn't go on. And then I realized that it was just going to be too painful to actually have to watch her die. Right in front of me. My daughter was dying. That's when I snapped. ~ Dina Kucera

Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue ... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy. ~ Dina Powell

Home is never the same for anyone not just refugees. You go back and find that you have grown and so has your country. Home is gone. It lives in the mind. Time exiles us all from our childhood. ~ Dina Nayeri

Will you take this seriously? The future of an entire species is at stake."

"Yes, we're going to save them with a fart gun. ~ Ilona Andrews

Love me until the flames of the last star burn out ~ Dina Al-Hidiq Zebib

It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done. ~ Dina Merrill

There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It's okay to say, "My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I'm still proud of them." Hold your head up and have a cappuccino. Take a trip. Hang your Christmas lights and hide colored eggs. Cry, laugh, then take a nap. And when we all get to the end of the road, I'm going to write a story that's so happy it's going to make your liver explode. It's going to be a great day. ~ Dina Kucera

Yesterday I attempted suicide and I almost DIED. I won't be trying that again. ~ Dina Hansen

It's being handled. Your involvement isn't necessary. You're free to continue on your serial urination spree. ~ Ilona Andrews

Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom. ~ Dina Titus

An idle mind is just a playground, a place to roam and play and discover. ~ Dina Santorelli

The diaper bag, the car seat, the bottles, the pacifiers, the changing mat, the wipes, and all the toys in their primary colored glory; none of which would compliment my outfit. ~ Dina Silver

He smiled at me, turning into the old Sean Evans. The transformation was so sudden, I blinked to make sure I didn't imagine it. Because you're a carebear. ~ Ilona Andrews

I'd like to drift into Jessica Tandy-type parts. ~ Dina Merrill

Did you hear that? a woman asked. I crouched behind the growth. No. No, you didn't hear anything. Don't mind me, I'm not hiding the corpse of a nasty creature behind your flower bed. Nope. Nothing here but cute, fluffy bunnies scampering adorably into the night ... ~ Ilona Andrews

Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies. ~ Dina Powell

Dina listens to conservative talk radio, belongs to a fundamentalist Christian church, and has a "Guns don't kill people - abortion clinics do" bumper sticker on her car. ~ Christina Baker Kline

The waiting began to take its toll. It's a terrifying place. Pressure from the past, pressure from the future. They say too much of either is a mental illness. The future brings anxiety because you don't belong and can't move forward. The past brings depression because you can't go home. Your memories fade and everything you know is gone. ~ Dina Nayeri

Never allow anyone to destroy God's divine purpose within you through their opinion. ~ Prophetess Dina Rolle

Unlike economic migrants, refugees have no agency; they are no threat. Often, they are so broken, they beg to be remade into the image of the native. As recipients of magnanimity, they can be pitied. (...) But if you are born in the Third World and you dare to make a move before you are shattered, your dreams are suspicious. You are a carpetbagger, an opportunist, a thief. You are reaching above your station. ~ Dina Nayeri

Love is there holding us, yet we must stop and embrace it. ~ Dina Al-Hidiq Zebib

Films have always been youth oriented. ~ Dina Merrill

There's No Surrender~without Full Surrender! ~ Prophetess Dina Rolle

All that I know about happiness, you have taught me, and everything good in my life can be traced back to you. ~ Dina Silver

If God does indeed exist, then He is good, and He is just, and He stands upon the side of right. ~ Dina L. Sleiman

I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics. ~ Dina Kochetkova

When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn't notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used any sort of common sense whatsoever. It was a time when you didn't raise your children. You just fed them and they got bigger. ~ Dina Kucera

Oh, Anyone can make a quilt,' she said modestly. 'It's just scraps, from the clothes you've sewn.'
'Yes, but the talent is in joining the pieces, the way you have.'
'Look,' Om pointed, 'look at that - the poplin from our very first job.'
'You remember,' said Dina, pleased. 'And how fast you finished those first dresses. I thought I had two geniuses.'
'Hungry stomachs were driving our fingers,' chuckled Ishvar.
'Then came that yellow calico with orange strips. And what a hard time this young fellow gave me. Fighting and arguing about everything.'
'Me?Argue?Never.'
...
He steeped back, pleased with himself, as though he had elucidated an intricate theorem. 'So that's the rule to remember, the whole quilt is much more important than the square'. ~ Rohinton Mistry

mixed together - because Dina refuses to acknowledge ~ Christina Baker Kline

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.'
'And not a single coin are they donating', said Dina.
'That's not surprising. Pity can only be shown in small doses. When so many beggars are in one place, the public goes like this' - he put his fists to his eyes, like binoculars. ~ Rohinton Mistry

The mystic Al-Ghazali said that the inhabitants of heaven remain forever thirty-three. It reminds me of Iran, stuck in 1976 in the imagination of every exile. Iranians often say that when they visit Tehran or Shiraz or Isfahan, they find even the smallest changes confusing and painful - a beloved corner shop gone to dust, the smell of bread that once filled a street, a rose garden neglected. In their memories, they always change it back. Iran is like an aging parent, they say. ~ Dina Nayeri

Honestly, I don't know what 'having it all' means. I do my best - that's what I want my daughters to see. ~ Dina Powell

When I look over my shoulder, both he and Caden are staring up at me with matching looks of interest I've never seen before. ~ Dina Littner

Love yourself. Don't worry about what others say, think, or feel about you. They didn't create you, do not own you, and therefore hold no power over you. Do not allow your ego to replace your self-worth. ~ Dina Redmon

Once Tyler did his job, a nurse would take Tyler's sperm, wash them in the spin cycle, give them each a spritz of cologne and a tequila shot, and then load them into a turkey baster that would eventually be inserted into my waiting vagina. So this was how babies were made. ~ Dina Silver

She reaches for me then, angry in her tenderness as only Dina can be. Not as a navigator, you dumb bitch. ~ Ann Aguirre

My daughter, Carly, has been in and out of drug treatment facilities since she was thirteen. Every time she goes away, I have a routine: I go through her room and search for drugs she may have left behind. We have a laugh these days because Carly says, So you were lookingfor drugs I might have left behind? I'm a drug addict, Mother. We don't leave drugs behind, especially if we're going into treatment. We do all the drugs. We don't save drugs back for later. If I have drugs, I do them. All of them. If I had my way, we would stop for more drugs on the way to rehab, and I would do them in the parking lot of the treatment center. ~ Dina Kucera

I'd worked in the state senate in college and seen how important legal decisions were. And at the last minute, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said, 'Why don't you come do an internship?' That turned into almost 15 years in the government, in the White House, and at the State Department. ~ Dina Powell

We drift from the safe places of our childhood. There is no going back. Like stories, villages and cities are always growing or fading or melding into each other. We are all immigrants from the past, and home lives inside the memory, where we lock it up and pretend it is unchanged. ~ Dina Nayeri

A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children. ~ Dina Titus

She's just a girl."
"What am I?"
He leaned to his side and ran a hand through my hair. "You're a woman," he said and then kissed me ear and left his mouth there. "A gorgeous, smart, fucking sexy-ass woman. ~ Dina Silver

Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time. ~ Prophetess Dina Rolle

Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?" He levels angry blue eyes on me. "You're a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?"
"Only to people who try to kidnap me," I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, "Or rescue me ... " And then Dina makes a pfft sound. "Or who travel with me ... " My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. "Fine, frag you all, I'm dark juju, bad luck, and you're all doomed. ~ Ann Aguirre

I am standing on a thin border between past and future. Waiting for madness to come. ~ Dina Nayeri

When we are true to ourselves, all that is toxic and burdensome simply falls away ~ Dina Hansen

Power doesnt come from fights, and fist, and musles, it comes from the heart. -Dina"

"Life is short, live it to the fullest. -Dina"

"Never let your anger out when your angry, keep it inside. Let the people who your angry with know how strong you are. -Dina"

"Put a smile on your face no matter what happens. keep walking forward because you cant changed what already happened. -Dina"

"Never look back, keep walking forward, this is the path you chosed. -Dina"

"Don't ruin your life because of a small mistake. -Dina"

"We people do not need god to make things happen, we need the will and courage to do it ourselves.-Dina"

"I wonder what life would be like if i didnt have the people i have today. -Dina"

"I wonder what life would be like for others if i wasn't born. -Dina ~ What

One drunken evening filled with passion, carelessness and Jagermeister. ~ Dina Silver

If he ever becomes an issue, I could eat him. He looks delicious." "Thank you, but that won't be necessary." And that wasn't creepy. Not at all. Caldenia smiled. "You will be surprised how difficult it is to get rid of a human body. I'd say he is perhaps a hundred and seventy pounds? That's a lot of flesh to manage. We could freeze it. He'd feed me for at least three months. ~ Ilona Andrews

That suit has gone to your head."
"It's not the suit, buttercup."
"I don't do pet names."
"Do you do werewolves?"
"Okay, I'm not talking to you anymore. ~ Ilona Andrews

I don't know why you're crying… but I hope it's because you're as in love with me half as much as I am in love with you. ~ Dina Silver

Joy has nothing to do with our life situation. It has to do with love of life itself. ~ Dina Glouberman

When more women join the labor force and, particularly, become entrepreneurs, GDP rises dramatically in those countries - in both developed and developing economies. ~ Dina Powell

Just click your heels together three times and say, there's no one like Cam, and I'll appear. ~ Dina Silver

I hear myself laughing, screeching, cackling. The world is red hot and pulsing. On fire [...] I stroll down the corridor and the flickering fluorescents celebrate my passing, humming in praise. I spin, bow and hum along. Bloody footprints trail; bloody fingers smear the walls. ~ Eliza Crewe

The decision-making part of the brain of an individual who has been using crystal meth is very interesting. When Carly and Andy were in their apartment, they ran out of drugs. They sold every single thing they had except two things: a couch and a blow torch. They had to make a decision because something had to be sold to buy more drugs. A normal person would automatically think, Sell the blow torch. But Andy and Carly sat on the couch, looking at the couch and looking at the blow torch, and the choice brought intense confusion. The couch? The blow torch? I mean, we may not need the blow torch today, but what about tomorrow? If we sell the couch, we can still sit wherever we want. But the blow torch? A blow torch is a very specific item. If you're doing a project and you need a blow torch, you can't substitute something else for it. You would have to have a blow torch, right? In the end, they sold the couch. ~ Dina Kucera

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet. ~ Rohinton Mistry