Rafed El Issa Quotes & Sayings

MONEY
There are people who believe that money is God and there are others who believe that money is the devil. Both are in ignorance. Money is merely a medium of exchange. Do not compare this medium to God, dirt or devil. It is the greed or hatred of man that labels money as 'good' or 'bad'. — Sirshree

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports. — Bruce Dern

When you turn your back on someone, they come running after you. — Robert Greene

These Taoists' ideas have greatly influenced all our theories of action, even to those of fencing and wrestling. Jiu-jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence, owes its name to a passage in the Tao-teking. In jiu-jitsu one seeks to draw out and exhaust the enemy's strength by non-resistance, vacuum, while conserving one's own strength for victory in the final struggle.
In art the importance of the same principle is illustrated by the value of suggestion. In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up the full measure of your aesthetic emotion. — Okakura Kakuzo

The stories I create are never as awful as reality. — Henning Mankell

Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness. — Raj Singh

I had more wealth, indeed, than I had before, but was not at all the richer; for I had no more use for it than the Indians of Peru had before the Spaniards came there. — Daniel Defoe

The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think. — Beauford Delaney

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff. — Will Rogers

Stop playing hard to get"
"I'm hard to get. I'm not playing. — G.A. Hauser