Robin Oliveira Quotes

And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the relative permanence of paint, words were temporal. You uttered them and they evanesced, but if you wrote them, they remained, though whether the written word was any more truthful than the spoken was a mystery to her. Only paint was honest. ~ Robin Oliveira

For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it. ~ Robin Oliveira

Both carried, despite their martial postures, an aura of sorrow, though ghosts of smiles flickered across their faces. They would have recognized one another from a mere turn of the head observed from hundreds of yards away on a moonless night in January. ~ Robin Oliveira

In some ways I liked the struggle better, I think. It clarified what was important. ~ Robin Oliveira

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out. ~ Robin Oliveira

If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up. ~ Robin Oliveira

How women defeat one another; how need defeats women. ~ Robin Oliveira

Do not pull back from the pain and imagine that makes you strong. Look at it, you dolt! It is trying to tell you what is wrong so you can fix it. ~ Robin Hobb

You're nervous around me. I don't bite." He turned his head and swept a gaze over her that went from head to toe and back again. "Unless you like that sort of thing. ~ Robin Bielman

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. ~ Robin Tunney

The merrel also knew its wing had not healed. But I could reach a great height once more before it failed me, it said. And from there I would fold my wings and plummet to the earth as if a hare or a fawn had caught my eye; but it would be myself I stooped toward. It would be a good flight and a good death. And so I eat their dead things cut up on a pole, dreaming of my last flight. ~ Robin McKinley

Who needs a house? I'm talking about your heart. You have plenty of guest rooms there. And that's what you do. You open your heart to people. You keep lovely little rooms in there, just waiting for your friends to come visit. People feel as if they can come right in, just as they are. You don't entertain, you love. That's what lasts. That's why people like me feel as if I will always be your friend. You hold a special place for me in your heart. ~ Robin Jones Gunn

There was endometrial tissue outside of where it belonged, and the cancer developed from that. ~ Robin Quivers

But all fires, of wood or grief, burn down to ashes eventually. ~ Robin Hobb

There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks. ~ Robin Olds

promising!) was oddly disappointing, but what happened ~ Robin Stevens

Lee Duffy was a man apart and someone who only comes around once in a lifetime, a total one off. There have been a lot of things written about him in the press and it's always been from the other side of the coin. There are always two sides to every story and Lee's family have never fully told us their side. They are very distrustful of the press after Lee was made out to be some kind of monster.
If Lee had been born and bred in London, he would have been an icon.
He was Robin Hood, Dick Turpin and Muhammad Ali rolled into one. ~ Stephen Richards

Take away the pomp and circumstance, at the end of the day, only eternal things will be truly celebrated. ~ Robin Bertram

[Christy] joined some other girls from her floor who had gathered in the den to watch THe Princess Bride. The last time Christy had watched the movie was before she went to Switzerland. Katie had rented it and brought it over for their final girls' night. After watching it, Katie had declared she would never trust a guy who said "As you wish" to her every whim. She wanted a guy with gusto who would say, "Get it yourself," otherwise she knew she would sit around and get fat while he catered to her. ~ Robin Jones Gunn

The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Those that know me well tend to get scared at how well I know them behind their masks. They ignore the fact that they reveal themselves to me when I mirror their behaviors and despite their judgments or reasons. What a person says isn't as truthful about such person as what she does when you do the same to her. ~ Robin Sacredfire

The fires of refinement come with a cost, but also with a promise. His grace has been extended forth to you for restoration, confirmation, strengthening, and being established in Him. ~ Robin Bertram

Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You've basically made yourself an indentured servant. ~ Robin D. Hart

Everyone says the Summer Queen is stunning,
beautiful, absolutely captivating. Yeah, I guess she is,
but so is a volcanic eruption ~ Julie Kagawa

Elliania wore her cloak of narwhals and bucks, and somehow a doublet that matched it perfectly had been created for the Prince. Dutiful's simple coronet had been replaced with an ornate harvest crown, and in that I saw Chade's subtle hand, for he displayed the Prince as a crowned king before his dukes. Ceremonial it might be, yet it could not fail to leave an impression. Elliania was crowned, as well. Whereas the Prince wore a crown of gilded antlers, hers featured a single narwhal horn enameled in blue and trimmed in silver. When ~ Robin Hobb

John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood. ~ Douglas Brinkley

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers ~ Robin Williams

You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don't. You know I love you. I always have. I always will ~ Robin Hobb

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity. ~ Robin Williams

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

Doing the difficult things that you've never done awakens the talents you never knew you had. ~ Robin Sharma

It is best if you do not spend all your time wishing you were somewhere else. ~ Robin LaFevers

She always wore dresses, and she was pretty like an angel or someone's mother. ~ Robin Roe

The bigger the dream, the more important to the team. ~ Robin Sharma

I've still got it. I refuse to lose. ~ Robin Roberts

Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved. ~ Robin Lane Fox

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials. ~ Robin Leach

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones. ~ Robin Hobb

Something killed them. Long ago. I don't know exactly what. Some great cataclysm of the earth, that buried whole cities in a matter of days. It sank the coast, drowning harbour towns, and changed the courses of rivers. It wiped out the dragons, and I think it killed the Elderlings as well. ~ Robin Hobb

Dream Big. Start small. Act now. ~ Robin Sharma

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion,' ~ Robin Cook

The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities. ~ Robin Benway

In my head, when the gales are riding wild,
I steer towards catastrophe
then write about it. ~ Robin Robertson

Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light." - Madeline L'Engle

"There is freedom waiting for you on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?" - Erin Hanson

"Break the rules. That's my number one rule. I know the rules [of grammar] and I know how to break them."

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." – Carol Burnett

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ Robin E. Mason

Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others." "Every man believes that. It isn't so. Slay the ones you can as they come to hand, and after a while you get used to the ones you can do nothing about. ~ Robin Hobb

the sales compensation plan is Batman, the sales contest is Robin. ~ Mark Roberge

When I was a child and told my mother I didn't felt this was my planet, she thought I was schizophrenic or autistic. When later I finished a college degree and started working in different countries, she called me monster and started threatening me. Nearly 40 years later, when I was making a living from the books I wrote based on what I know, and making 6 times more money than she ever will, she apologized. I'm just not sure why or what she was apologizing for. I had already forgiven her ignorance when realizing nobody would ever believe the truth but myself. I had to go the whole way alone. Nobody was going to come with me on this very long, painful and challenging journey that humans call life but for me was much more than that, it was my mission, of changing their whole future far beyond the time when I'm gone. She was never my mother but merely the human body that gave me birth. In that sense, I am a monster, because I had no love. I had to find that too, on my own. ~ Robin Sacredfire

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention. ~ Robin Hobb

When I was a kid I used to wonder if, just maybe, the world existed only for me. If rooms ceased to exist when I stepped into the hallway and people disappeared once they left me, the rest of their lives imagined solely for my entertainment. ~ Robin Wasserman

What am I supposed to do about you? I think you'd better tell me. Caro, because I don't have a fucking clue. ~ Robin York

But down below, Penumbra is shouting, "Lean, my boy! Lean!"
And wow, do I ever want this job. ~ Robin Sloan

Raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'? ~ Robin Morgan

To the extent that clutter gets in the way of living in the kind of environment we'd like to be living in and leaves us feeling stressed or remiss, we can all improve our relationships to our possessions. ~ Robin Zasio

Real leadership involves breaking through the limits of your mind so you can step into the highest strengths of your spirit. ~ Robin S. Sharma

I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic, too. ~ Robin Lord Taylor

They walked fifty yards in silence, and Strike had lit up a cigarette before he said: "Very, very impressive." Robin glowed with pride. ~ Robert Galbraith