Raabe Quotes & Sayings

One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness ... Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Problems exist only in the human mind. — Anthony De Mello

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. — Taylor Branch

Nature, too, seems to sense that something is coming to and end; it's summoning all it's strength for one last surge. — Melanie Raabe

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal

It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny. — Ezra Koenig

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring. — Tom Raabe

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians. — C.S. Lewis

Doubt is like a thorn you can't get a hold on. — Melanie Raabe

Indeed, there is something about reading in a restaurant that is borderline romantic. Leaning back in that corner booth, an evocative title in our hands, a stale cup of java in front of us, every so often bolting forward to jot a phrase onto the napkin, we look like, well, poets-unknown belletrists scraping through the hardscrabble years and awaiting the distinction that is imminent. the waiter of waitress refills our cup, we drop a memorable apothegm or two, share a laugh fraught with meaning, scope out the joint, and return to our tome. Nonbiblioholics strain to espy our title; conversation is struck up on things Kafkaesque and Kierkegaardian; and we forge a genuine biblioholic simpatico with all around. — Tom Raabe

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness. — Adam Smith

I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves. — Kristen Stewart

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) — Kellie Elmore

Always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve. — Philip Toshio Sudo

It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense
ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it! — Tamora Pierce

...this place, this life, the one we were building together, even with all its cracks and bumps and imperfections, this life was the one I needed, the one I wanted, and that best of all, it was home. — Kimberly Stuart

It is a miracle. I remind myself that I am on a tiny planet that is moving at an insane speed through a boundless universe, never tiring of its flight around the sun, and I think to myself: it's crazy. That we exist at all, that the earth exists and the sun and the starts, and that I can sit here and see and feel all this. It's incredible; it's a miracle/ If this is possible, anything's possible. — Melanie Raabe

Films are my way of passing the time; books are my passion, my true love. But music is my refuge. — Melanie Raabe

Thinking of Rooie, he was not entirely alone. He'd even chosen a hotel that he thought Rooie would have liked. Although it was not the most expensive hotel in Zurich, it was too expensive for a cop. But Harry had traveled so little that he'd saved a fair amount of money. He didn't expect the 2nd District to pay for his room at the Hotel Zum Storchen, not even for one night, yet that was where he wanted to stay. It was a charmingly romantic hotel on the banks of the Limmat, and Harry chose a room that looked across the river at the floodlit Rathaus. — John Irving

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings. — Wilhelm Raabe

Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent,
More in fact than from our friends. — Aristophanes

We are narrative creatures, and stories render the world apprehensible. Narrative tells us about the world we live in and our place within it. — Joseph Laycock