Rebecca Quotes

She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.

We're nobody's dirty little secret.

Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.pg. 4

It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.

In moments such as these, it’s the minor seconds that count. Seconds that can make or break you. Seconds that can save your life.

Do not fight with your brother. There are things that God expects us to fight for, true. But string is not one of them. Do you understand?

It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says—we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself.

I’ve always felt a person’s worth is equal to how much of themselves they willingly invest into something they know no one else sees value in.

It's great being a journalist, because our office is the world.

Do you know how when you're moving really fast in a car, and you're looking at the road, you get sick, but if you look at the trees you're fine? She's my trees, man.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

Why does it have to come down to choosing just one man, when no one man can give me everything I want?

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.

Nothing succeeds like failure.

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

Reform is born of need not pity.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated he forgets truths which are too simple.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Oh to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed. “Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.

We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.

I'm able to provide for my family and the people that I love with things that I never used to be able to. I'm getting to make music and work with amazing people. I just feel really lucky.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

Over time, if you want rights, you have to also show that you can use them responsibly and that you can build a positive world in the online space, and that's also very important.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology.

Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.