Raabe Paint Quotes & Sayings

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don't do market research. — Akio Morita

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you. — Jeanie Thompson

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. — Paul Ricoeur

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. — Edward Fairfax

Colors add meaning to life,
Some hidden facts they do imbibe.
One color could signify two things,
The onus lies on us,
As to how we take it. — Garima Jain

Futility is the defining characteristic of life. — Stephen R. Donaldson

The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't. — Alan Keyes

Spirit? Who is that fellow? And where do you know him from? Is he perhaps not merely an arbitrary and convenient hypostasis that you have not even defined, let alone deduced or proved? Do you think you have an audience of old women in front of you? — Arthur Schopenhauer

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one. — Jorge Ramos

What did she want? Frances couldn't tell. She wasn't sure she cared any more. There had been too much dancing back and forth. The night had been over-stretched: it had lost its tension. — Sarah Waters

The problem with baggage is that it affects other people's trips. — Chris Hodges

It's about passion, about allowing yourself to be overwhelmed, allowing a love to be feral without needing to domesticate it. Loving something or someone for what or who it is, not what you want it to be. That takes an enormous amount of strength and integrity. Which ties back in with the calling: allowing something to be scary, to be overwhelming; to devote yourself to it even if it requires great changes from you. It's something we have to live up to; it does not arrive neatly wrapped up in an understandable package. That would be easy. And the Lovers is always hard. RECOMMENDED — Jessa Crispin

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep. — George R R Martin

People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground! — David Berg