Janette Rallison Quotes

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

I am much obliged to you gentlemen for leaving me one sentence of my own.

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

Well, it's true that you often kind of forget to see the person you're most intimate with, but occasionally I'll come to and sort of think, 'Oh my God! You're really, really good-looking! I'm embarrassed now! It's nice to occasionally have that flash.

I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

With people too, you constantly think, "If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better." They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.

Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. "I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint." "You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.