Adriana Trigiani Quotes

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

Adriana Trigiani

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LifeExcellenceMy LifeSettleWhy

If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.

Jerry West

MeWinYouWantAround

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Johannes Tauler

GodWisdomRewardWillOwnHe

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Joel Osteen

LifePositiveTough TimesNegative

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

Jennifer McMahon

LifeThinkInterestingSecretsDark

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

Andrew Solomon

WorkFatherOperaUsedStepmother

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

John Lithgow

DemocracyMonarchyCombinationMost

Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open.

John McCain

EyesAmericaWayOpenMustHarm

We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

Robert Reich

ValueSmallWealthTaxWhyClass

We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.

Matthew Walker

VisionDayWordsSilenceBrainSeed

When relationships don't work out, it doesn't mean you're a bad person, it just means you weren't meant to be together.

Tracy McMillan

WorkTogetherYouBadPersonMean

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Robert Foster Bennett

LifeFreedomYourselfControlResult

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Mason Cooley

SoulGreatnessAmbitionAimLiterary

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