Prophetic Lament Soong Chan Rah Quotes & Sayings

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. — Benjamin Franklin

We knew Down South. Everyone had one. Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico. — Jacqueline Woodson

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. — Ovid

Normal people don't know how lucky - how blessed - they are. — Darren Shan

And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment's happiness is flung so high and dazzling over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment. Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a happiness of their own. — Hermann Hesse

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention. — Robert Greene

Writers are thieves, We steal stories. We steal names. We steal scenes. We observe the world and we take what we need and modify it. — John Grisham

Why can't I
quiet the thoughts
running through my head?
Put down the pen
and climb
snugly
into bed? — Amanda Leigh

How wrong and petty any life is. — David Wojahn

To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.' — Iris Apfel

I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck. — John Le Carre

Honestly is always an option, even when you don't think it is. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state. — George W. Bush