Rebecca Goodwin Lachance Quotes

Reflecting on this, Albert LaChance recognized an opportunity - what if the work he and so many others found so fruitful in the 12-Step recovery programs could be expanded to an ecological, a global, or even a cosmic level? ~ Albert J. LaChance

Ultimately, we are much more addicted than the junkie because we are responsible for not only our own demise, but the breakdown of the entire natural world. There is no other appropriate response to a situation this grave, this utterly overwhelming, than powerlessness. It has taken countless generations to arrive in this predicament; a solution cannot arise overnight. It will take work. It will take time. ~ Albert J. LaChance

Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human. ~ Rebecca McKinsey

Birds arrived. Gulls landed within weeks of the island's emergence, depositing the guano that built a richer soil. Fulmars and guillemots were the first to nest. Snow buntings and graylag geese came, almost ninety bird species in all, and twenty-one species of butterfly and moth. The first bush - a willow - came fifteen years after creation, and five years after the willows, seals were breeding on the young island. The descriptions make Surtsey sound like an orchestra, one instrument after another joining until there was the symphony that is an ecosystem. ~ Rebecca Solnit

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. ~ Rebecca Hall

The lawyer was a short, ugly, little man. He stood about three feet taller than his desk's two foot eight inch frame and he had dark eyes. Lois couldn't tell if they were black or an extremely dark brown. His hair was dirty blonde and very messy. He looked as if he had just crawled out of bed. His white button up shirt was tucked in on only one side and the other side hung out freely. He wore a pair of tan khakis and a pair of black loafers. His skin almost matched the khakis which was extremely creepy and Lois kept thinking the man wasn't wearing pants. ~ Rebecca McNutt

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

In our quest for living a pure, focused life that pleases God, we all hit the wall at one time or another. What do we do then? Give up ... Not an option. I have had times when the road has gotten long ... Those periods can be very challenging. When they happen, I go to God and ask for His strength for the journey. ~ Rebecca St. James

We all have scars; some scars can be seen and others cannot. Every scar has a story and every story needs to be told. ~ Rebecca Shea

Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined, ~ Rebecca Solnit

I've loved you every second of this life, and if I died, I'd love you every second of the next. ~ Rebecca Zanetti

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists. ~ Rebecca West

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation. ~ Rebecca L. Walkowitz

I've dreamed of you. Through the years, when I believed I'd never leave the shield world and had accepted that as my death…I still dreamed of you. ~ Rebecca Zanetti

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Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving. There was ruin everywhere and we should see more of it. ~ Rebecca West

Habits make of tomorrow, yesterday. ~ Rebecca Serle

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money? ~ Rebecca Goldstein

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will. ~ Rebecca Romijn

My life is too lonely without fictional people crowding my mind. ~ Rebecca Raisin

I've got a running machine which I try and use, but it's just finding the time. Don't get me wrong, I love cake and ice cream; I'm the kind of girl that, if I want something, I'll have it. ~ Rebecca Ferguson

... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. ~ Rebecca Solnit

A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security' that are currently unregulated at the global level due to lack of international consensus over what those terms actually mean or over how to balance enforcement with the protection of citizens' rights. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? ~ Rebecca Solnit

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

Of course women's walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk not to see but to be seen, not for their own experience but for that of a male audience, which means that they are asking for whatever attention they receive. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Do we not have moments of grace? ~ Rebecca Maizel

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

The creatures I have sent to their God are not men. They abdicated the right to the name by committing acts of inhuman savagery so that they cannot even count themselves among God's beasts. For even the beasts have better reason for what they do- and so have I. If those be men, I rank myself gladly with the animals. There are places in this world where the force of law holds sway; it is a great pity that Larissa is not one of them.
Laertes, Count of Samothrace ~ Rebecca Ashe

It's sad really, I think 'Freedom' would've done better, but it got shelved because of the pregnancy, so it might be something that might get revisited in the future; who knows? ~ Rebecca Ferguson

Some species of trees spread root systems underground that interconnect the individual trunks and weave the individual trees into a more stable whole that can't so easily be blown down in the wind. Stories and conversations are like those roots.
("A Short History of Silence") ~ Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca..." His face softened, and his eyes glowed as he remembered. "How could I not kiss you? ~ Sierra Rose

So what are you going to do?" "I don't know yet," I admitted, still searching the faces for the girl who had broken my heart. ~ Rebecca Donovan

My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books. ~ Rebecca Eaton

Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had in this mortal life. And all those who vibrate in harmony to language that itself vibrates to the harmonies of the infinite are entitled to inclusion among the "small group of people. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system. ~ Rebecca Saxe

Don't you get it? You don't have to beg me for anything. I'm already yours. ~ Rebecca Yarros

costs nothing, but works wonders for oiling the cogs of social exchange. ~ Rebecca Tope

Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible. ~ Rebecca Donovan

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it. ~ Rebecca Miller

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life. ~ Rebecca West

Stand up and be counted, or sit your ass in the corner and color. ~ Lori Goodwin

Couldn't start the morning without caffeine. ~ Ginnifer Goodwin

Rape and other acts of violence, up to and including murder, as well as threats of violence, constitute the barrage some men lay down as they attempt to control some women, and fear of that violence limits most women in ways they've gotten so used to they hardly notice–and we hardly address. There are exceptions: last summer someone wrote to me to describe a college class in which the students were asked what they do to stay safe from rape. The young women described the intricate ways they stayed alert, limited their access to the world, took precautions, and essentially thought about rape all the time (while the young men in the class, he added, gaped in astonishment). The chasm between their worlds had briefly and suddenly become visible. ~ Rebecca Solnit

I'm your whatever."
"My whatever?"
The soft kiss he'd placed on my lips had me leaning in for more. "Whatever you need me to be," he whispered against my mouth. ~ Rebecca Yarros

The newspaper got it all wrong. They should have called me a harlot and a slut, a poseur and a tease, a nubile and naive,
a slattern and a sleaze, a vandalist and anarchist, a dirty dilettante with a fatal and fervent disease.
Because I was all of those things in the twelve days when there was too much rain and I was burning and I found and lost Justine. ~ Rebecca Godfrey

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. ~ Rebecca Lobo