Rachidian Quotes & Sayings

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it! — Nikita Khrushchev

Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live. — Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Heaven doesn't ignore cries of a broken heart. — Toba Beta

Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it. — Robert Boyle

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. — Saul Williams

It's a strange thing when you spend so much time and energy fearing the worst will happen. Turns out that when it finally occurs, it's pretty much as bad as you thought it would be. In fact, some parts are worse. Then an amazing thing happens. You see clearly for the first time what made the terrible thing so frightening in the first place: You didn't think you'd survive. But you do. — Lane Davis

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential. — Lauren Groff