Raftari Quotes & Sayings

On every journey, we encountered beautiful souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You were meant to write this book. — M. Kirin

Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; The night cometh. — David Brooks

The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work; not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself. — Sidney Abram Weltmer

Music is like my security blanket. — Yoko Ono

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood. — Sara Sheridan

Guilt is about what you do with your dick. Shame is about being a dick. — Neil Strauss

A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people. — Anna Quindlen

Too much of the world was inhospitable, intractable ... Why prove that it had ever once been green? — Margaret Drabble

Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot," he wrote. The content of the medium is just "the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind." P 4 — Nicholas Carr

I think I just never wanted to be the creepy guy where people say, 'Why do his leading ladies keep getting younger and younger, and why do they think he's so hot even though we know that the girl who's playing this part actually has a handsome boyfriend?' — Robert Downey Jr.

Just as you are, come to Christ Jesus, He will change you, to what you ought to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good? — Miroslav Volf

It's a song, I realize, after a second, as it continues blaring. Hotline Bling. — J.M. Darhower

Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused. — Ha-Joon Chang