Anne Grete Riis Quotes & Sayings

Why must one religion be hounded by another? What gives them the right to punish and persecute someone of a different faith? Why? — Lilian Gafni

Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define ... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Our Heavenly Father has created a blessing just for you every day. — Eve M. Harrell

Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them. — Chris Matakas

The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die. — J.C. Ryle

Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision. — Alastair Campbell

In the later part of his creative life Nietzsche suffered acutely from loneliness. Like his alter ego, Zarathustra, he found himself alone on a (Swiss) mountain top. But, intellectually at least, he accepted this condition. Since, he reasoned, a radical social critic, a 'free spirit' such as himself, sets himself ever more in opposition to the foundational agreements on which social life depends, he reduces the pool of possible comrades, and so of possible friends, to vanishing point. — Julian Young

Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction. — Ilchi Lee

I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue to be, portraits. This is not only true, it is also necessary. We are not solitary mammals, like the elephant, the whale and the ape. What is most profoundly felt between us, even if hidden, will reappear in our portraits of one another. — Ben Maddow

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again. — Hermann Hesse