F Raktar Quotes & Sayings

What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live. — Manoj Arora

Without someone to talk to, every sight I saw - whether it was the Trevi Fountain or a canal in Amsterdam - felt simply like a name on a list that I needed to check off. — Jojo Moyes

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God. — Aristotle.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building. — Bruce Campbell

The how will show up after the commitment to the what. — Tony Robbins

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. — Josh Billings

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham

There is no Royal Road to Geometry. — Euclid

The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy. — Marcus Aurelius

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be communicated with. — Flint McGlaughlin

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship. — Kristin Hannah

I saw us both as if from a distance off in time: two small, craving, suffering creatures, soon to be gone ... So there he was, a man who had been given everything and did not know it, who had lost it all and now knew it, and who was boasting and grinning only to pretend for a few hours longer that he did not know it ... And there I was, a man losing what I was never given, a man yet rich with love, a man whose knees were weakening against gravity, who needed to go somewhere and lie down. I stood facing the man I had hated for forty years, and I did not hate him. If he had acknowledged then what he finally would not be able to avoid acknowledging, I would have hugged him. If I could have done it, I would have liked to pick him up like a child and carry him to some place of safety and calm. — Wendell Berry

-Such dark thoughts for the sake of a corner table. My inner Jiminy Cricket spoke up. Oh, all right, I said. May the world's small things fill her with delight.
-Good, good, spoke the cricket.
-and may she purchase a lottery ticket and possess the winning number,
-Unnecessary, but fine.
-And may she order a thousand such bags, each one more splendid than the last, delivered and dumped by FedEx, and may she be trapped by a storeroom's worth, without food, water, or cell phone.
-I'm leaving, said my conscience.
-Me too, I said, and I went back out on the street. — Patti Smith

My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments. — Halle Berry

I believe that all taxes are bad. — Stephen Harper