Jim Rayburn Quotes & Sayings

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. — Kwame Nkrumah

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life. — Sandra Bernhard

The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still ... that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning. — Paullina Simons

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche

A tree never feels how much fragrance it spreads. It's just its nature to be like that. — Moazzam Shaikh

I may not believe in God, but I believe in the Wow! That day you kissed me on the ledge, that was it." A light, like I'd seen in the eyes of those testifying on their faith, it lit him up.
"We're tiny out there. In a million years what we do ain't going to matter worth shit and that's still going to be there. I think the Wow will make it better. — James Buchanan

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe. — Caryl Churchill

I believe the best revenge is to live. (136) — Jessica Stern

[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere. — Susan Mitchell

I used to train with my husband, Anthony Maina, but he is now too busy as a helicopter pilot, so we only run together when I do light jogging. I don't want to kill him before his next flight! — Catherine Ndereba