Ragged Priest Quotes & Sayings

Having arrived at this point of non-action, there is nothing which he does not do. — Lao-Tzu

Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong. — Susan Estrich

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke. — Jane Fonda

We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming. — Novalis

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to. — Zadie Smith

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, "are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939) — Jorge Luis Borges

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.' — Alexandre Aja

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket. — James A. Baldwin

The Trell pushed himself upright. "Where is the library?" "Turn right, proceed thirty-four paces, turn right again, twelve paces, then through door on the right, thirty-five paces, through archway on right another eleven paces, turn right one last time, fifteen paces, enter the door on the right." Mappo stared at Iskaral Pust. The High Priest shifted nervously. "Or," the Trell said, eyes narrowed, "turn left, nineteen paces." "Aye," Iskaral muttered. Mappo strode to the door. "I shall take the short route, then." "If you must," the High Priest growled as he bent to close examination of the broom's ragged end. — Steven Erikson

Europe, he says, is frightened that an influx of foreigners will erode European values. But what values will there to be uphold if we abandon our duty to protect those less fortunate than ourselves? Wat incentive do we give to refugees to maintain the fabric of our society if that fabric is so ragged in the first place? "If Europe is not able to show a better way of life to them, then they will think that their morality is better than ours."

"They need to face some higher standards of morality, " he says. "If not, they will set their own."

[Quoting Serbian priest Tibor Varga] — Patrick Kingsley

Don't let lack of sexual communication get in the way of your pleasure any longer. Dare to ask the questions that will make sex so much more enjoyable, boost passion, and facilitate a deeper connection and intimacy in your relationship. — Miya Yamanouchi

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. — Sebastian Horsley

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that. — Kathryn Bigelow

It seemed as if I were born to bring sorrow on all who befriended me, and that was the bitterest drop in the bitter cup of my life. — Harriet Jacobs