Petronella Ravenshear Quotes & Sayings

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity. — Umberto Eco

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head. — Eric Clapton

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King

Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star. — Earl Monroe

The Islam of Muhammad banished the idea of supervision, of a police system of control. This explains the absence of clergy in Islam and the encouraging of all Muslims to get involved in understanding the written word. Individual responsibility came into play to balance the weight of aristocratic control, finally making it ineffective in an umma of believers whose behavior followed precise, internalized rules. Recognizing in women an inalienable will fitted into this scheme of making everyone individually responsible. — Fatema Mernissi

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way. — Paul Merton

War destroys more than cities - it destroys generations of dreams and hopes and education and possibility. — Ann Voskamp

and pleasure? What is it that I am tasting?' The most eloquent rabbi and writer of Hasidic mysticism, Abraham Joshua Heschel, left Warsaw in 1939 to become an important — Diane Ackerman

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

You are only a flying Dutch
while the Rights of The Royals
have already died.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
October 31, 2016 — Petra Hermans

As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption. — Fadi Ghandour

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. It is not to lead our neighbor into a corner where there are no alternatives left, but to open a wide spectrum of options for choice and commitment. It is not an educated intimidation with good books, good stories, and good works, but the liberation of fearful hearts so that words can find roots and bear ample fruit ... .The paradox of hospitality is that it wants to create emptiness, not a fearful emptiness, but a friendly emptiness where strangers can enter and discover themselves as created free ... .not a subtle invitation to adopt the life style of the host, but the gift of a chance for the guest to find his own. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

If you would grow great and stately,
You must try to walk sedately. — Robert Louis Stevenson