Donna Rice Quotes and Sayings
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I had gained so much confidence through my college
achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.
- Donna Rice

I stared at the television in shock,
watching as my private life was revealed to the world.
- Donna Rice

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape,
my unhealthy relationships with men,
my anger toward the people involved in the scandal,
and those who exploited me afterwards.
- Donna Rice

I was always an overachiever.
- Donna Rice

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation,
I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him
face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention
of ending our brief relationship.
- Donna Rice

After graduating in the summer of 1980,
I knew I wanted my life to count.
- Donna Rice

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television
commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.
- Donna Rice

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Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number,
and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night.
I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.
- Donna Rice

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold,
she could not be bought.
- Donna Rice

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try
out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant.
To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
- Donna Rice

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal
job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person.
I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.
- Donna Rice

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen,
Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987,
we hadn't talked.
- Donna Rice

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job,
but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I
knew the way I'd been living was wrong.
- Donna Rice

Pornography changes the attitudes and lifestyles of those who consume it,
no matter how old a person is.
- Donna Rice

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident,
but several years of press aftermath.
- Donna Rice

In my case, I learned that although God loves us,
he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.
- Donna Rice

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back
to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence.
But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress,
I finally resigned.
- Donna Rice

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because
he was contemplating running for president,
he couldn't separate from his wife.
I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult
choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
- Donna Rice

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York,
I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career
as a television commercial actress,
obtaining my SAG card there.
- Donna Rice

Because pornography is a tool of Satan that exploits
and distorts our God-given sexuality,
women - especially Christian women -
need to understand the increasing threat of online pornography.
- Donna Rice

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of
the presidential race because of the Washington Post's
threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had
apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman,
the media continued to embellish my past.
- Donna Rice

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Essentially all suffering is the result of...
1. Comparing what we have (or don't have) today
... with what we had yesterday.
2. Comparing what we fear we might have (or not have) tomorrow)
... with what we have today.
3. Comparing what we have (or don't have) with what others have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

You know the only people who are always sure about
the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
- Bill Cosby

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children
is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia:
it seemed like a good idea at the time.
- Bill Cosby

Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln

I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I

Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Civilization had too many rules for me,
so I did my best to rewrite them.
- Bill Cosby

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela

I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain

I am certainly not an authority on love because there
are no authorities on love,
just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
- Bill Cosby

My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser

Family life was wonderful.
The streets were bleak.
The playgrounds were bleak.
But home was always warm.
My mother and father had a great relationship.
I always felt 'safe' there.
- Robert Cormier

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
- Bern Williams

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood,
musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
- Ray Charles

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of
jingles have never had to sell anything.
- David Ogilvy

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

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